Quotes About Endurance

No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

How many mistakes can one life survive?

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit

My running ambition is to keep doing it until I'm way past the point where I have any business running. Just to keep doing it throughout my whole life—to stay fit and feel good.

He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.

Everything in my life has been challenging but rewarding.

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

You can't lead a true life without suffering

We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.

... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

Was that life? Well then, once more!

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.