Quotes About Endurance

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

I want you to know there's nothing... nothing to be afraid of. On one side, there's life. And on the other...there's life, too.

It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

In the midst of death life persists.

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.

If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

Life is a series of hard and easy runs.

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.