Quotes About Endurance

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

up all morning; it would not be unheard

Assuming stability is one of the ways ruins get made. Resilience accommodates the unexpected.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Being prepared isn't a matter of how much you practice. It's about knowing that even if you fail, you won't give up.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

He carried Hell with him, as we all did, like a little load on our backs that we hardly noticed most of the time, or like a huge great hump of suffering that bent us over with its weight.

The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

We survived, Ellie, we survived.

I guess you can't live at full-on intensity forever. Lying on the bed of my cell in the dark, trembling, waiting for the soldiers to come in and shoot me - you just can't keep doing that. There's something in the human spirit that won't let you live that way.

I knew then the answer to my question; the question I'd asked myself many times during this war, and many more times since it ended. When would I be able to put the war behind me? When would I be able to forget it? And I knew now that the answer was simple. Never. I never would. Some things end. But war never does.

This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller's life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller's most precious gift to us may reside in the ideas and the works, still yet to be imagined, of women and men who follow her example. We may decide that, despite all that Margaret Fuller endured and suffered in order to become exceptional, her life, or rather her lives, well deserve imitating.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.

It took a couple more weeks, and a commitment to being a real pain in the ass...

Tennis really is single combat, and it's exhausting to be a gladiator.

But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.

Men do not fail they give up trying.

Remember what we taught you to do when you get to the end of your rope?" "Make a knot and hang on," Ayers says.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Underneath, they have chosen a Camus quote: In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Camus quote: In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

You know what they say about hitting yourself over the head with a hammer, she would tell Mamie. It feels good when you stop.

What is the most important lesson of all? Perseverance? Honesty? Forgiveness? Love?

It seemed the cruelest circumstance life had to offer—that someone she loved so profoundly could hurt her so badly and still that love did not die.