Quotes About Endurance

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Runners don't quit. We fade; we hit the wall; we're sometimes reduced to a walk. But we keep on.

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

You would've thought the more pain you suffered, the more you'd get used to it, but it was the other way around.

Time hasn't been kind." "Time never is. A fighter keeps fighting even so. Thought you were a fighter?

Why do I do it, when it always hurts me? Why must we test the pain? Tongue the ulcer, rub the blister, pick the scab?

You must make of your quim a stone.

Life's a queue of small irritations with the Last Door at the end.

Yarvi soon learned only to sip the results, since unwrapping to piss in that cold was an act of heroism that earned grunted congratulations from the others, all the more heartfelt since everyone knew sooner or later they would have to present their own nethers to the searing wind.

patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing.

When you have a load to lift, you're better lifting than weeping.

They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest." The old man winced as he squatted down beside Jezal. "Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.

A man who'd lasted past his time. A man dragged back for one fight too many. But then, one is one too many.

Broken hearts heal with time, but broken teeth never do. Glokta

You will be struck, and when you are the force of it must not stagger you, the pain of it must not slow you, the shock of it must not cause you to doubt.

Patience is the parent of success.

El dolor es el mejor combustible para avivar un fuego.

A man has to bend with the breeze.' The Great Wolf's grin was wider than ever. 'You're a bastard, Clover. But you're my kind of bastard.' Stour's kind of bastard. That was where all his cleverness had got him.

Hate us if you like. We're used to it. No one likes to shake hands with the man who empties the latrine pit either, but pits have to be emptied all the same. Otherwise, the world fills up with shit.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees" Victor Hugo