Quotes About Endurance

Nobody ever won a race by standing at the starting line.

I was in forever, not just until I didn't get my way.

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.

pain can't be taken away. It has to leave on its own. And I wasn't sure mine was the type of pain that wanted to go away.

Because that's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going. It took a lot of things to make me realize that. To make me see the path, as the destination.

I'll keep going. Because that's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going. It

Because that's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

There's a difference between missing someone and mourning them…Because that's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

No matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.

because that's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. you keep going.

wasn't exactly crying, but it hurt like hell to swallow.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us. Hebrews 12:1

Not all of us are called to die a martyr's death," he wrote, "but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had."9

Love is the only way we will make it through what is to come. Love is not romantic ectasy. It has to be a kind of love that has been honed and intensified through regular prayer, fasting, and repentance and, for many Christians, through receiving the holy sacraments. And it must be a love that has been refined through suffering. There is no other way.

a church that is a church only on Sunday and at other formal gatherings of the congregation is not only failing to be the church Christ calls us all to be; it is also not going to be a church with the strength and the focus to endure the trials ahead.

if we latter-day believers are not able and willing to be faithful in the relatively small trials we face now, there is no reason to think we will have what it takes to endure serious persecution in the future.

God will eventually win, even though I may not see it in my life. So my suffering is not meaningless, because I am part of a greater battle that will be victorious in the end. That is what our father showed us by his life.

Rather, they must keep their balance and stay focused on, in Havel's words, "the everyday, thankless, and never-ending struggle of human beings to live more freely, truthfully, and in quiet dignity.

and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult. Bring snacks and a book to read.

persistence beats stupidity

One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity

the word 'stoical' has entered the languages of today to describe patient endurance in the face of suffering.