Quotes About Endurance

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

Like the philosophy credited to Jack Dempsey: The more punches a man takes, the closer he is to the end. Because a man has only a fixed number of punches he can take in his lifetime. "Pa?

A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.

A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.

He said no break is permanent. Like a bone that heals crooked, still it will heal.

You wear out. You see too much. Every breath hurts. The

There is a carpet, or a strip of something, that I am walking on...and it is being rolled up behind me. So that there is only the strip I am walking on, with nothing in front or behind me. Sometimes, I am so very tired - but there is no place to rest.

Like a memory of having been poisoned by something you'd eaten, barely managed to survive—and yet here is the food again, and you are hungry.

Labor was the right word for it. You surely do labor. Like pushing a wagon loaded with cement blocks uphill, three wheels stuck. Grunting, sweating, straining like a sow to give birth as it's called.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream. Many get started and quit get started and quit get started and quit. They do not continue because their broken heart overwhelms their hope. They do not have any inner strength to carry them through to the end. Jesus will bind up your wounds and heal your bruises. His Word is the medicine for your soul.

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

When a person is going through a hard time, his mind wants to give up. Satan knows that if he can defeat us in our mind, he can defeat us in our experience. That's why it is so important that we not lose heart, grow weary and faint.

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

Habakkuk 3:19 says that the way we develop hind's feet (a hind is an animal that can climb mountains swiftly) is "to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress upon" the "high places [of trouble, suffering or responsibility]!" The way God helps us make spiritual progress is by being with us to strengthen and encourage us to "keep on keeping on" in rough times. It's easy to quit; it takes faith to go through.

means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently. 1 Corinthians 10:13

Great character is not developed through ease and convenience but through doing NOW what needs to be done no matter how difficult it

O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever. Psalm 136:1

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." —Unknown

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint. Galatians 6:9