Quotes About Endurance

he gets turned down oftener than the lamp in the parlor of a sailor's girlfriend.

Somehow, despite it's tragedies, life goes on.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

I was ever a fighter, so---one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and bade me creep past.

You'll love me yet!--and I can tarry Your love's protracted growing: June reared that bunch of flowers you carry, From seeds of April's sowing. I plant a heartful now: some seed At least is sure to strike, And yield--what you'll not pluck indeed, Not love, but, may be, like. You'll look at least on love's remains, A grave's one violet: Your look?--that pays a thousand pains. What's death? You'll love me yet!

What if we still ride on, we two With life for ever old yet new, Changed not in kind but in degree, The instant made eternity

Hold On. Hope Hard.

A bitter heart that bides its time and bites.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.

When he ran, he even loved the pain, the hurt of the running, the burning in his lungs and the spasms that sometimes gripped his calves. He loved it because he knew he could endure the pain, and even go beyond it. He had never pushed himself to the limit but he felt all this reserve strength inside of him: more than strength actually—determination. And it sang in him as he ran, his heart pumping blood joyfully through his body.

Waiting doesn't look like much, but it is something very important. Waiting is passive hunting.

novel True Grit by Charles Portis

sometimes not quitting was all you had left.

Moths swarmed around the parking lot lamps, banging into the glass with a steady tap-tap-tap, and I wondered if they welcomed the dawn. At dawn, they could stop slamming their heads into the thing that forever kept them from the light. People don't have a dawn. We just keep slamming away until it kills us.

The plan of the Father is that family love and companionship will continue into the eternities. Being one in a family carries a great responsibility of caring, loving, lifting and strengthening each member of the family so that all can righteously endure to the end in mortality and dwell together throughout eternity.

America is learning an ironic truth of empire: You endure by not fighting every battle. In the first century A.D., Tiberius preserved Rome by not interfering in bloody internecine conflicts beyond its northern frontier. Instead, he practiced strategic patience as he watched the carnage. He understood the limits of Roman power.

Hope became something to cling to when there was nothing else but despair.

Time always won the race.

It's the small sins that save you. That's how you survive when all around you are getting their heads sawed off.

Never quit, Rikki. No one can beat you if you don't quit.

You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length