Quotes About Endurance

kep on trying

There is always a solution. For everything. Always. Sometimes it isn't pretty and takes a little longer, but there is still a solution.

He was out of food, but he could look tomorrow and he could build a signal fire tomorrow and get more wood tomorrow . . . The

A person can do practically anything for a short time if he doesn't think he has to do it for life.

most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

He was not the same and would never be again like he had been. That was one of the true things, the new things. And the other one was that he would not die, he would not let death in again.

He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

hundred-mile

In measured time forty-seven days had passed since the crash. Forty-two days, he thought, since he had died and been born as the new Brian. When the plane had come and gone it had put him down, gutted him and dropped him and left him with nothing.

Russel] might not make it, he might die on the ice, but he would not die with fear. He would die working not to die...

most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that—it didn't work. When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed.

Fifty-four days," Brian said. "Not quite two months. Yes—that's me.

He had not slept the night before except to doze kneeling next to Derek, and he had worked hard all day on the raft getting it ready, and when the sun went down and the darkness caught him he could not believe how much he wanted to sleep.

Everyone struggles. Each life comes with a long catalog of pain.

Nu, nu, do as you must, her patient replied, as if her entire existence was but an endless series of pushbacks and rejections.

En la vida hay que acostumbrarse a todo, incluso a la eternidad.

Uno se acostumbra a todo cuando se quiere… cuando se tiene buena voluntad…

Coffee was the substance that kept us going. Our surgeons had offered us something stronger, but we were all concerned about our performance deteriorating when the stimulants wore off.

Here I pause. If you wish to walk no farther with me, reader, I do not blame you. It is no easy road.

pain … the chain forged to bind us to the eternal present, …

thinking of giving up is probably the one thing that's kept me going. I think about it on a daily basis but always come up against the problem of what to do when I've given up. Give up one thing and you're immediately obliged to do something else. The only way to give up totally is to kill yourself but that one act requires an assertion of will equal to the total amount that would be expanded in the rest of a normal lifetime.

Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.

Fortune has dealt us this adversity: Some malign aspect or disposition Of Saturn in some adverse position Has brought it on us; nothing's to be done: It stood thus in our stars when we were born; The long and short of it is this: Endure.

la virtud que corona la perfección es la paciencia.