Quotes About Endurance

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

The human liver, unless it is Graham Greene's, can take so much and no more.

We must be cloaked by the stars and wrapped by the moon; we must dine on the winds and rest by the waters. We move on if there's a road, and we stop only when we come to its end.

Thus another émigré, the Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, wrote, "If, despite everything, I should survive, then I owe it to Goethe.

Anthony Kiedis

In fact, she [Pamela Flitton] seemed to prefer 'older men' on the whole, possibly because of their potentiality for deeper suffering. Young men might superficially transcend their seniors in this respect, but they probably showed less endurance in sustaining that state, while, once pinioned, the middle-aged could be made to writhe almost indefinitely.

Success is buried on the other side of frustration.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

No matter how long a wall has stood, none has the power to withstand the continued force of human beings who have decided to persist until it has fallen. The human spirit truly is unconquerable.

Nietzsche: «Aquel que tiene un porqué lo bastante fuerte, puede soportar casi cualquier cómo».

The day you stop racing is the day you win the race. —BOB MARLEY

Un hombre que sufre antes de que sea necesario, sufre más de lo necesario. SÉNECA

Anything worth having is worth waiting for. Love, Marilyn.

Book love, my friend, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant t you as long as you live.

he was doing nothing, thinking of nothing, looking at nothing; he was merely suffering.

This to me is abominable, but I cannot help myself, unless I resolve to go away and hide myself. That I know cannot be right, and therefore I had better go through it and have done with it. Though I am to be stared at, I shall not be stared at very long. Some other monster will come up and take my place, and I shall be the only person who will not forget it all.

The men who think of superannuation at sixty are those whose lives have been idle, not they who have really buckled themselves to work. It is my opinion that nothing seasons the mind for endurance like hard work. Port wine should perhaps be added.

CHAPTER XXXIII THE BEGINNING OF PERSECUTION

CHAPTER LIX THE LAST EFFORT

that a man should force himself to endure anything that might be sent upon him, not only without outward grumbling, but also without grumbling inwardly.

We know the story of the Spartan boy who held the fox under his tunic. The fox was biting him into the very entrails, but the young hero spoke never a word. Now, Bessy Garrow was inclined to think that it was a good thing to have a fox always biting, so that the torment caused no ruffle to her outward smiles. Now, at this moment the fox within her bosom was biting her sore enough, but she bore it without flinching.

But in such troubles nothing will give comfort. They must be borne, till the fire of misfortune burns itself out.

There are hearts and bodies so organized, that in them severe wounds are incurable, whereas in others no injury seems to be fatal.