Quotes About Endurance

If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know.

And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler — smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything...for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts, and don't you be forgetting it! 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for–worth dying for.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, The dogs bark but the caravan passes on? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

Gradually, Scarlett drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

You've been brave so long Scarlett. You just gotta go on being brave.

The Cause they had thought could never fall had fallen forever.

All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed. They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation. Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had

Longing hearts could only stand so much of longing.

Don't holler—smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving. We had to be.

La terra è la sola cosa al modo che valga qualche cosa [...] perché è la sola cosa al mondo che rimanga e, non dimenticarlo!, la sola cosa per cui vale la pena di lavorare, di lottare... di morire.

Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb: 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes on'? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it if I do. I'll think of it tomorrow at Tara. Tomorrow's another day.

Through the window, in the faint light of the rising moon, Tara stretched before her, negroes gone, acres desolate, barns ruined, like a body bleeding under her eyes, like her own body, slowly bleeding. This was the end of the road, quivering old age, sickness, hungry mouths, helpless hands plucking at her skirts. And at the end of this road, there was nothing—nothing but Scarlett O'Hara Hamilton, nineteen years old, a widow with a little child.

Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.

Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had fought. And when they died, they died spent but unquenched.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

There is no pretending, " Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

I push through physical pain. Life hurts. I enjoy the positives.

Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).