Quotes About Endurance

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

Patience is not my dominant virtue. --D'Artagnan

Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

I have forgiven the world for the love of you;

The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. ~Edmond Dantes

We shine like those fires and those stars; we sigh like those waves; we suffer like those great ships, which are worn out in ploughing the waves, in obeying the wind which urges them towards an end, as the breath of God blows us towards a port. Everything likes to live, Raoul; and everything is beautiful in living things.

it is a cruel thing to be forced to say, but, already used to misfortune, I must habituate myself to shame.

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words,— Wait and hope.

No matter how much I stir, my soup still sticks to the pot.

The acid test of a strength? The ability is a strength only if you can fathom yourself doing it repeatedly, happily, and successfully.

But don't stop worshiping. Never give up in the desert. You don't know how wide it is, and you may be almost across.

Press on and keep pressing. If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk—CRAWL.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.

You are already tearing my heart in two. What difference would more pain matter?" "If

There were just little things and they still made me sad, but I become better at staying in my sadness and at resisting the urge to chase it away.

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

Are you a person who peels off a band-aid slowly or just rips it off all at once?" Casey contemplated Alexa's warning, recognizing it for what it was.

Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing" "Don't ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you'll never make it to the END.

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

Suffering ceases to be suffering in some way at the moment it finds a meaning." — Viktor Frankl (psychiatrist who survived a Nazi concentration camp and wrote about his experiences in Man's Search for Meaning)