Quotes About Endurance

Soon the pain felt wonderful, almost sweet, because it was the kind that you can tell precedes relief. But maybe all pain is like that.

That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.

There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.

Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink.

this I know of life's difficult times: there is always a time for them to begin and a time for them to end, and the man who knows this knows he must thank God for each day he has suffered because that is always one day closer to the sun, the real sun.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

Our true strength appears at our weakest moments

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Life might have its failures, but this was not it. The only true failure can come if you quit.

The only true failure can come if you quit.

Trials aren't meant to harm us but to make us more Christlike.

He swam and he wept.

She'd survived because the fire inside of her burned brighter than the fire(s) around her.

Nature's in no hurry, then. Why would she be? She has literally all the time in the world.

the emergency is already here, the cup of endurance fast running over – but the onrush of catastrophe does have a temporality of its own. It imposes tight constraints on those who want to fight.

Dreamers think success is a one hit wonder, successful people know success is built one step at a time many times over. Building a solid foundation ultimately creates more future successes.

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards

It takes three years to build a ship; it takes three centuries to build a tradition.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

If you're going through hell, keep going [as stolen from Winston S. Churchill]

That which is painful sharpens one's love.

Yet implicit in this consensus were two notable assumptions: first, that the advantages enjoyed by the United States at the end of the Cold War were insuperable and sure to endure; second, that the great majority of Americans, along with any would-be challengers abroad, would comply with the terms of this consensus, coming to the inescapable realization that no real alternative existed.