Quotes About Endurance

We must endure, and toil without complaining.

Be sure to foresee whatever can be foreseen by planning. Observe and avoid, long before it happens, anything that is likely to do you harm. To effect this your best assistance will be a spirit of confidence and a mind strongly resolved to endure all things. He who can bear Fortune, can also beware of Fortune. At any rate, there is no dashing of billows when the sea is calm. And there is nothing more wretched or foolish than premature fear. What madness it is to anticipate one's troubles!

I can only suppose that you weigh all those negatives against the worth of the show, and choose, in the end, to be patient and put up with it all.

Instead of meeting misfortune with groans and tears, I will call upon the faculty especially provided to deal with it.

It is no light thing, said he, to endure poverty uncomplainingly; and a difficult thing to bear wealth without becoming arrogant.

A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action. It is usually an advantage to a movement, and perhaps a prerequisite for its endurance, that these roles should be played by different men succeeding each other as conditions require. When the same person or persons (or the same type of person) leads a movement from its inception to maturity, it usually ends in disaster.

Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left.

Sweat rained from my forehead; my own salt blinded me until I wiped it all away.

Bisogna venir qui per vedere in quante parti un uomo può esser ferito.

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.

Nessuno può evitare di soffrire.

Fiecare pas oferea o victorie. Fiecare sforÅ£are anunÅ£a o înfrângere.

Te-mpaci cu eÅŸecul? — M?-mpac cu lupta neîncetat?. Dup? mine, victoria const? chiar în lupt?, nu în deznod?mântul ei. F?r? s?-mi uit scopul, renunÅ£ la iluzia de a câÅŸtiga.

Beat on the doors until you get what you want. Beat on the walls until your fists bleed.

Twenty-one hours before Thora's air tube would be removed. How long could she last after that?

defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

one must go through war to reach peace.4

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. 'We were wrong,' said the croakers, 'but this at any rate is the end.' Yet to refute them, and to prove that there is no end to art, still another generation of painters sprang up.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

In soloing--as in other activities--it is far easier to start something than to finish it.