Quotes About Endurance

I'm tired of hearing that the Lord shapes the back to the burden.

Seen in either geological or biological terms, we don't warrant attention as individuals. One of us doesn't differ that much from another, each generation repeats its parents, the works we build to outlast us are not much more enduring than anthills, and much less so than coral reefs.

That have I borne, this can I bear also.

The plum survives its poems.

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it's done right.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

Start slow and taper off.

My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,I laugh at what you call dissolution,And I know the amplitude of time.

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

A batter'd, wreck'd old man,Thrown on this savage shore, far from home,Pent by the sea and dark rebellious brows, twelve dreary months,Sore, stiff with many toils, sicken'd and nigh to death,I take my way along the island's edge,Venting a heavy heart.

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.

You need luck to keep going. It takes more than skill to stay alive.

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

And the greatest grace God can give such a man is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers—and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved.

He wants men of greatest generosity and self-sacrificing," he wrote, "who renounce their own will and embrace his will instead." So, "Lord, if that is thy will in regard to me, unworthy one, I embrace it fully and promise with thy grace to remain faithful to the end to thy most holy will. This is my life, my joy, my strength and courage.

Every moment of every man's life is precious in God's sight, and none must be wasted through doubt and discouragement. The work of the kingdom, the work of laboring and suffering with Christ, is no more spectacular for the most part than the routine of daily living.

final. Y la mayor gracia que Dios puede concederle es enviarle una prueba que no sea capaz de soportar con sus propias fuerzas… y sostenerlo con su gracia para que pueda perseverar hasta el final y salvarse.