Quotes About Endurance

There are women whose love only ends with death.

They were both heavy, with the heaviness of people who are constantly struggling with the patient forces of nature.

Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life. She smiled through her tears. Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first," she said.

Yet, after all, Jenny thought she had been granted more than she hoped for when she married him. He did love her: differently, but perhaps more enduringly; and he had grown to depend on her. She thought that they would have many years of quiet content: never reaching the heights, but living together in comfort and deepening friendship.

Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life.' She smiled through her tears. 'Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,' she said.

It had survive both separation and divulging interests.

When things are as bad as ever they can be you cease to mind them much. You set your teeth and battle with the fates

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

Maybe, sometimes, in the midst of things going terribly wrong, something is going just right.

Though we were fearfully weary by the end of the third day, our quarrels were still spirited and our friendships firm fixed.

I am the sky and nothing can stick to me. The sky is open and vast and stays unchanged no matter what; it is always the sky. A storm can roll through it, an airplane can roar through, and it is always the sky.

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

My experience has taught me that all of us have a reservoir of untapped strength that comes to the fore at moments of crisis.

My mind was so dull, my nerves so worn from waiting, that only an emotionless vacuum remained.

You are going through mud but your feet are still clean.

I learned from my experience is that each of us has an enormous reservoir of strength to draw upon when needed.

Fear is like a pack of dogs – it chases us, and if we try to run or hide from it the dogs will continue our chase until finally, exhausted, we fall and are devoured.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Any man will be able, after sufficient practice, to accomplish remarkable feats of strength, but he may go only so far and no farther. There is a limit to human physical strength that no one can exceed.

I work out once a day. When I'm in a massive dance show mode, I'll probably be active for about 20 hours each week.

There are so many ways to work out, and it is exhausting.

We believe that the Arab world has been there for centuries, and thousands of years, and it'll keep on continuing being there. All we have to do is work together.

The one thing I'm not tempted to ever do is stop working. Retirement would be too tough for me. As a workaholic and an insomniac, I identified with my subject, General Dumas, who, according to field reports, would ride on patrols without sleep sometimes for two nights on end before going into battle - and winning.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.