Quotes About Endurance

She learned that time could not be the measurement for the things that lasted. Sometimes what endured was that which changed us in a matter of moments, not years.

The terrible things that happen to us in this life never make any sense when we're in the middle of them, floundering, no end in sight.

Remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

Only through suffering do we learn

He who learns must suffer.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Who acts, shall endure. So speaks the voice of the age-old wisdom.

that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist.

No man can go through life and reach the end unharmed. Aye, trouble is now, and trouble still to come.

Cry Sorrow, sorrow--yet let good prevail.

The brave heart is called to school itself In slow endurance against Griefs that strike deep into the bosom

I have suffered into truth (...) Time refines all things that age with time

ESORAIS M' HOS EKDIKA PASKHO!

No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later. Chorus, Aeschylus' Eumenides from the Oresteia

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

Time shell be the limit of my suffering.

Cry, cry for death, but good win out in glory in the end.

Break, heart; flow, tears, for-ever.

Slow but steady wins the race.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Don't take it so much to heart, my friend; put a brick into the hole, and take a look at it every day: you won't be any worse off than before, for even when you had your gold it was of no earthly use to you.

A very large Oak was uprooted by the wind, and thrown across a stream. It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds. They replied: You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken. Stoop to conquer.

Perseverance is surer than swiftness.