Quotes About Endurance

Hope was a cancer inside him. He didn't want it; he did not want it. He could not bear these shoots of tender green hope springing up within him any longer.

There was the sense of a war having occurred. One that was not yet over.

We are only doing what we can to get through.

But we do the best we can. Most of us are just trying to get through.

deprivations never leave us.

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts not amid joy.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

Hoop die nooit wordt uitgesproken duurt het langst.

Let us give, in the first place, what is necessary; secondly, what is useful; next, what is pleasant, and one should add, what is likely to last. We must begin with what is necessary; for a matter involving life appeals to the mind differently from mere adornment and equipment.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (1Co 10:13).

It's a beautiful thing to refuse to forget...

Pero el tiempo pasa, y dura. Y hay un momento en que todo se estanca. Los días dejan de contarse, la esperanza se desvanece... Es entonces cuando te conviertes en prisionero real. Profesional, por decirlo de algún modo. Un prisionero paciente.

Mientras hay muerte - apuntó- hay esperanza. - ¿Es otra cita? - Es un chiste malo.

El español, una vez decidida la estocada que se propone dar, la ejecuta ciegamente aunque así lo hagan pedazos (PIERRE DE BRANTÔME).

Cómo viviste estos años? —¿Los del fracaso?... Replegándome despacio hasta donde me ves. Como un ejército derrotado que combate mientras se deshace poco a poco.

La guerra era aquello, se dijo Ruy Díaz de nuevo: nueve partes de paciencia y una de coraje. Y más temple era necesario para lo primero que para lo segundo.

Algún día todo esto será abrasado por el fuego de la Historia —comenta con perverso deleite—. Pero de momento, aquí estamos... Así que vivámosle.

Cuanto más se suda antes de la guerra, menos se sangra en ella.

Huir sólo sirve para morir cansado y sin honra.