Quotes About Endurance

Live faithfully, fight bravely, and die laughing.

in time you will come to believe that there is nobility in being part of an enterprise that will outlast you.

But have heart. Hope is something that can be very dangerous but without it life would be horribly dry. Impossible, even. Take it from me.

They sleep despite noise, despite cold, despite hunger, as though desperate to stay removed from the waking world for as long as possible.

It's not so much the contents of the song. It's that the song was still being sung.

he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one trapped underwater, under a Plexiglas floor, while the world moved on, men and women checking in and out of rooms, lugging overstuffed suitcases, the soles of their shoes passing lightly above him.

It is the rarest thing...that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed.

Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders.

The Goddess of History looked down to earth. Only through the hottest fires can purification be achieved.

Aethon," says Olivia. "The fool you were telling us about. In the story? Even though he keeps going the wrong way, keeps getting turned into the wrong thing, he never gives up. He survives." Zeno looks at her, some new understanding seeping into his consciousness.

Waiting is a kind of war. You simply tell yourself that you must not lose.

weaker moments, he

We will call him Omeir. One who lives long.

stirs the fire below them with a steel pole; a

Only through the hottest fires, whispers the radio, can purification be achieved. Only through the harshest tests can God's chosen rise.

Algumas tristezas nunca deixam de existir.

We live in exciting times, says the radio. We make no complaints. We will plant our feet firmly in our earth, and no attack will move us.

I am quite gifted at waiting.

It is my one great skill. I was never much good at athletics or mathematics, but even as a boy, I possessed unnatural patience. I would wait with my mother while she got her hair styled. I would sit in the chair and wait for hours, no magazine, no toys, not even swinging my legs back and forth. All the mothers were very impressed.

Only through the harshest tests can God's chosen rise.

Maybe his body is giving up. If he does not eat, he understands, he will die. But when he does eat, he fells as if he will die.

Prosperity depends on ferocity.

a bondade, mais do que qualquer outra coisa, é o que perdura.

He thinks of the old broken miners he'd see in Zollverein, sitting in chairs or on crates, not moving for hours, waiting to die. To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it's a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it. Fighting for it. Working so hard not to spill one single drop.