Quotes About Endurance

But a man lost in the desert, as the Gurkish say, must take such water as he is offered.

Patience is as fearsome a weapon as rage. More so, in fact, 'cause fewer men have it.

I have spent half my life in the business of destruction. The other half in the dogged pursuit of self-destruction.

Ljudi ponekad moraju raditi i nešto što im se ne svi?a ako žele ostati zapam?eni. Kroz muke, ne kroz lagodnost, sti?u se slava i ?ast. Kroz konflikte, ne kroz mir, sti?u se bogatstvo i mo?.

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.

Jurand! Still… Juranding, then???

life is the misery we endure between disappointments

Those were the times. Those were still the times, and maybe always would be.

Shenkt had his work, and he would see it through to the end, however bitter. Just as he always did. Some stories, after all, are only suited to bitter endings.

Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes that we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments." - Sand dan Glokta

There used to be," she muttered, "but they whip it out of you. They whip you until they're sure there's nothing left." Yulwei stood there, with that pitying look on his face. Strange, how it didn't make her angry any more.

it is the fate of hope to end in disappointment, as it is the fate of light to end in darkness and life in death. They are still worth something while they last.

What are you doing?' 'What we should all be doing,' Clover closed his eyes. 'Biding my time.' 'What's the difference between biding it and wasting it?' Clover saw no need to open his eyes. 'Results, woman. Results.

I can't walk forever, Malacus, I can't fight forever. How much of this horrible shit should a man have to take? I need to sit down a minute. In a proper fucking chair! Is that too much to ask? Is it?

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. You have to be realistic about these things.

Patience is the parent of success , Stolicus wrote.

Easy, now, and listen to me. It hurts, yes. Seems like more than you can take, but it isn't. You think you're going to die, but you won't. Listen to me, because I've been there, and I know. Each minute. Each hour. Each day, it gets better.

Least I won't have to carry it no more. You see how bloody heavy it is?

Still alive," he muttered to himself.

One battle at a time. - Stolicus

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

If strength is love, then we weren't strong enough, But if strength is letting love go, we were.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this. -Don Quixote.