Quotes About Endurance

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Daily, she forgave his flaws, just as she knew he forgave hers. Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She

More clench than butt cheeks.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. William Shakespeare.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

At the end of their grim race, death might be the only prize.

See much, study much, suffer much.

Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.

Take pride in your pain, her mother had always told her. You are stronger than those who have none.

You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.

Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.

She needs us, for our love, but she doesn't need us for anything else now." He swallowed hard and said, "Dying is a very solitary thing.

Enorgullécete de tu dolor –le decía siempre su madre–. Eres más fuerte que aquellos que no sienten ninguno.

One step at a time," Vorkosigan returned grimly, "I can walk around the world. Watch me.

You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.

The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself... Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hearth.' 'Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how they may endure.' -Bergon and Cazaril talking over the past

His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.

You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on. What do you find on the other side? When you go on? She shrugged. Your life again. What else?

Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

We have what we can hold, dear boy, and never let them see you flinch or falter.

Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Roic said nothing, firmly.