Quotes About Endurance

Among the last words that Isocrates ever wrote, before his death at the age of ninety-eight

that would drag on inconclusively for most of the next three centuries.

something the Byzantines had never managed to do.

Roderick L. Evans

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.

There are wars between different kinds or genres of books, he said. And, as in real wars, the best don't always win; but for us, in the end, there are no losers, although they all fade away.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD! (Psalm 27:14)

Illegitimus non carborundum" (Don't let the bastards grind you down!)

Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure...

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

I decided that if I was worth anything as a person, I ought to be able to let her be with what it was she had to be with then: not urge her to fight it if she was tired of fighting, not ply her with hope, not make her think about who might be upset or worried, not ask anything of her, nothing, just be alive with her while she was still alive.

Eneren, lyngens mor, er mitt tre. Den trenger ingen sommer, bare regn og sne. Fillet krone den løfter, ingen har hørt dens sus. Den har en lang, seig rot som kan gro av grus. Den bærer vind over skuldrene, skyene i sitt hår. Den kan stå i stormen. Knelende. Men den står. Kanskje den har en drøm i sindet: Det hvite ranunkel-bed der verden slutter og breene kommer ned. Av alle trær på jorden nærmest den store sne, breenes blinde sol. Å, var jeg som det.

Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Don't withdraw, don't surrender, don't give up.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Never say die. You have to be mad, it's true, to keep going and hope, but the first reptile who dragged his belly out of the water a million years ago to live on land without lungs and tried to breathe all the same — he too was mad. In the end the reptile became a man. We must always try to do the best we can — perhaps one day well become human, who knows.

A man lives on hope. He keeps thinking things will somehow straighten themselves out.

Of course it's always possible to gain time, put up a front, try to last it out - how long, a year, eighteen months? I'd rather leave the arena before I am beaten to a pulp and have to be dragged out. One has to know how to accept the inevitable.