Quotes About Endurance

About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.

Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.

For life is short and the art of writing books is very, very long.

Exercise...because the soul isn't the only thing worth saving.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniel's.

As Nietzsche said: 'He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

The fight is won or lost,' says Muhammad Ali, 'far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, well before I dance under the lights.

The difficult we can do immediately; the impossible will take a little longer.

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love" (1 Corinthians 16:13–14).

The best way to avoid danger is to be in a capacity to withstand it.

Compassion, perseverance, and forgiveness are all gifts.

The most grateful pilgrim is the one who has finished the longest journey.

Some things in this world just ain't mean to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

And you thought: they're used to it. But that was how those who suffered less always thought about those who suffered more, that they were used to it, that they no longer felt it as you did. Nobody ever got used to it. All they learned to do was to stop letting it show.

It cannot rain all the time...

Though infinite players are strong, they are not powerful and do not attempt to become powerful.

Just as Alexander wept upon learning he had no more enemies to conquer, finite players come to rue their victories unless they see them quickly challenged by new danger. A war fought to end all wars, in the strategy of finite play, only breeds universal warfare.

The heroism of the working cowboy isn't a joke . . . it isn't something that has been cooked up by an advertising agency, and it isn't something that cheap minds will ever understand. Cowboys are heroic because they exercise human courage on a daily basis. They live with danger. They take chances. They sweat, they bleed, they burn in the summer and freeze in the winter. They find out how much a mere human can do, and then they do a little more. They reach beyond themselves.

Words do nothing against them in the short term, so we bow to the storm winds and wait. We wait, and we have faith.

Suffering perfects the soul.

rather may be cured.

JAMES 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.