Quotes About Endurance

The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

If you keep working at something and stay with it, eventually good things will happen to you.

There are always good times and bad times.

Stick out the bad times because there's always good times coming up. When you come out on the other side, it's amazing.

Good businesses will survive good times and bad times.

I think it is important to do good work and last longer than to do lot of work and burn out quickly.

But if they were condmened to suffer this unending torment, sooner or later wouldn't they become the holy?

Now nothing was left hanging to the pole but the frazzled ends of the snapped blades.

In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that.

To live is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering

Like most marriages, ours eventually wore down all the cartilage. We were a hip needing replacement. Bone on bone, grinding, day in and day out. It worked but it was hard.

You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.

You've been a good steward of it. You've been a good steward of your pain.

A man's troubles are always half disposed of when he finds endurance the only alternative.

She stands — she sits — she staggers — she falls — she groans — she dies — and there are none of her children or grandchildren present, to wipe from her wrinkled brow the cold sweat of death, or to place beneath the sod her fallen remains.

He who has a Why can endure any How.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

Was that life? Well then, once more!

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not in the future, not in the past, not for all eternity. Not only to endure what is necessary, still less to conceal it — all idealism is falseness in the face of necessity — , but to love it...

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.