Quotes About Endurance

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

Life is never completely without its challenges.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.

God's love shines on anyone who understands the limits of endurance, and allows forgiveness

But what was endurance and shared diminishment if not devotion?

Apparently we'd been richer than we thought, to suffer such continual diminishment and still be alive.

Perhaps there is no shame in this, perhaps I can bear this, fight this. To give in but not give up. And projected back out behind him, toward the sea, Saul unable to say the name, just three simple words that seemed so inadequate, and yet they were all he had left to use.

The way back was harder, and no getting around that-no truth I learned struggling back, except that life is struggle. It placed me in some gray realm beyond, a landscape of exertion and anguish. I had nothing left to give, and yet still I had something left it give.

Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.

The oaks stand - quite still - so still that the lichen loves them...such solace and solitude seventy-nine miles thick cannot be painted...it is necessary to stay in it like oaks to know it. (1884)

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.

Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.

The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke.

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

Made profoundly aware of his mortality, Keynes decided in 1937 to set up a permanent fund that would provide Duncan Grant, now fifty-two, with a regular annual income. Although it had been twenty-five years since Grant and Keynes had been lovers or lived together, their importance to each other had endured.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Sticky seat cushions, talkative teens, annoying big screen commercials—it's all worth enduring for those occasional moments of revelation.

Bad days come to an end.