Quotes About Endurance

For just as surely as man begins to trust in his own abilities, so surely has he taken the first step on the road to ultimate failure. 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.

There would be a tomorrow, and we would have to live in it—and God would be there as well.

And I learned soon enough that prayer does not take away bodily pain or mental anguish. Nevertheless, it does provide a certain moral strength to bear the burden patiently. Certainly, it was prayer that helped me through every crisis.

Perfection lies in intensity, and what is most intense cannot be endured long.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.

Bücher sind das beste Schmerzmittel, um das Leben zu ertragen.

If he survived Roaming Rock, he kept telling himself, death would have lost its sting.

Wer einmal gelernt hat, in der Melancholie zu Hause zu sein, der kann es selbst in der schlechtesten aller Welten aushalten. Gute Lektüre, schwarzen Humor und gesunde, gut abgehangene Melancholie, mehr braucht man eigentlich nicht.

Das Leben, mein Junge, ist nicht nur eine wilde, schöne Reise. Leben, das heißt auch: dem Tod bei der Arbeit zuzusehen. Das ist das Härteste überhaupt! Das muss man aushalten können. Bist du bereit, das auszuhalten, mein Junge?

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

Never Die Easy

Es mejor soportar algunos determinados dolores para gozar de placeres mayores. Conviene privarse de algunos determinados placeres para no sufrir dolores penosos Testimonios escogidos, fragmento 34.

La valentía no es el roble majestuoso que ve ir y venir las tormentas; es el frágil retoño de una flor que se abre en la nieve.

Come one, come all! this rock shall flyFrom its firm base as soon as I.

Time will rust the sharpest sword,Time will consume the strongest cord;That which molders hemp and steel,Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence.

Stoic needs a good sense of humor.

Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once. Don't always be thinking about what sufferings, and how many, might possibly befall you. Ask instead, in each present circumstance: "What is there about this that is unendurable and unbearable?" You will be embarrassed to answer. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.36

When a steadfast mind knows that there is no difference between a day and an age, whatever the days or events that may come, then it can look out from the heights and laugh as it reflects on the succession of the ages. Seneca, Epistles 101.9

Only buy something that you would be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.