Quotes About Endurance

That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

This is also what it means to live in a time of polio, to be buried unknown, but not less loved than the pope or the president. I want to tell my children this. We are all worried about not being good enough for love. Imagine all we have. Imagine all we love and live through. Imagine what a chance we have to endure the very worst that might come our way.

you are never warmer than when you have been cold.

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.

We all fall but do not all crawl.

I eschewed shortcuts, for flashy shadow spanning helluns also have their price and I did not want to be all whacked out when I arrived.

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize...

too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.

He had learned that dignity could not be acquired from accoutrements and accessories; it cam unasked, it grew from one's ability to endure.

Losing, and losing again, is the very basis of the life process, till all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.

Where humans were concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure; and sorrow, for the hopelessness of it all.

Time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, age-old pastime of humanity.

Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value.

Men, as Amundsen liked to say, are the unknown factor in the Antarctic.

It was the inward, not the outer world that engrossed Shackleton. He did not share the semi-pagan nature worship in which Nansen and Nordenskjöld were steeped.

and perhaps tomorrow may see the end of these difficulties. Difficulties are just things to overcome after all."44

The New York Times foresaw that in future generations "if a great soldier is indomitable in purpose and exhaustless in courage, endurance, and equanimity; if he is free from vanity and pettiness, if he is unpretentious, truthful, frank, constant, generous to friends, magnanimous to foes, and patriotic to the core, of him it will be said, 'He is like Grant.

Rockefeller succeeded because he believed in the long-term prospects of the business and never treated it as a mirage that would soon fade.

It often saves me much annoyance.

At first, Rockefeller swallowed his anger and stoically endured this injustice.

I bore it in silence. It does no good to dispute with such a man.