Quotes About Endurance

Think of it this way: it can take 15 years to become an overnight success!

Colonel Sanders went to 1,000 restaurants before someone bought his KFC chicken recipe.

When the world says, "Give up," hope whispers, "Try it one more time." —Anon

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest:To give and not to count the cost;To fight and not to heed the wounds;To toil and not to seek for rest;To labor and not ask for any rewardSave that of knowing that we do Thy will.

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love thee! Yet these sufferings are as nothing compared to the reward Thou wilt give for them.

Running is not simply slogging through the miles, trying to sweat out last night's good times, or burning off excess weight—it is celebrating life.

our muscles and bones are strong enough for us to walk—but not to run, unless we have conditioned them.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Metellus, who, by his exertions, had triumphed over every obstacle, over arms, deserts, seasons, and finally over Nature herself that controls all, nothing was impossible [...]

Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, "He fought so hard." And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply gave up. This is quite wrong.

It is two years since I emerged from depression and I no longer want myself dead. I want myself alive. I am no longer my own enemy. Depression is the enemy. The monster lives at my gate. My hope is that, with sufficient effort and luck, I can keep it there.

Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

Hope is only the love of life.

Home is the place in which we picture, day after ordinary day, the fact that love will endure, that grief will be healed, that joy, one day, will last forever and the celebration will never end.

heroism. Her heart is transformed by suffering into one whose quiet and unspectacular faithfulness sustains the

No matter how bad things looked, Gramps had always seemed a giant to me. He wasn't made up of any monstrous parts.

you have to just go on. It's sort of like a bird flying into a plate glass window. And then you just sort of pick yourself up, shake yourself off, and check for anything broken, and go back to work.