Quotes About Endurance

And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. —1 JOHN 2:28

NO MATTER WHAT your circumstances may be, you can find Joy in My Presence. On some days, Joy is generously strewn along your life-path, glistening in the sunlight. On days like that, being content is as simple as breathing the next breath or taking the next step. Other days are overcast and gloomy; you feel the strain of the journey, which seems endless. Dull gray rocks greet your gaze and cause your feet to ache. Yet Joy is still attainable. Search for it as for hidden treasure.

We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God," they said. —ACTS 14:21–22

but it would hurt much more than if she gave in.

I love you, Peggy Mostly. Not halfway—not until it becomes too difficult or dangerous. But always, and wherever it may lead.

We don't stop, not even when we reach the finish line. It's a journey for life, Neve.

Last guys don't finish nice.

There are evils, as someone has pointed out, that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever -- money, for instance, or war.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

Saying of the sport

What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

Something was stretched to the point of irreparable damage, and I wanted to bounce on it until it broke.

Deal with death every day of my life... in one way or another. You can never tell when it's going to bring you undone.

Yahweh is the sort who sticks with what he is stuck with.

The first-day objective of those landing on Cape Helles had been to secure a small village some four miles inland, and then to advance on the Turkish forts just above. Over the next seven months, the British would never reach that village, but would suffer nearly a quarter of a million casualties trying.

Maybe there isn't a way," he said. "Maybe all we can do is wait and hope and endure for as long as we're able. The food will run out. Our bodies will fail. And the vine will do whatever it's going to do.

That was what they were so clearly doing here: they were waiting. And not in any suspense, either, not in any anxiety as to the outcome of their vigil. They were waiting with no apparent emotion at all, as one might sit over the course of an evening, watching a candle methodically burn itself into darkness, never less than certain of the outcome, confident that the only thing standing between now and the end of waiting was time itself.

It waits till we're weak before it reveals its strength.

Innovating comes at a price: it might be money, time, sanity, friends, or marriages, but there will definitely be one.

i've been killed so many times, i can't begin to count the carcasses. my dreams provide plenty of ammunition for me, murdered most mercilessly and it never freaking ends,

Even the prophets suspected they were mad, and kept their mouths shut Only the poor—who are with us always—only they continued in the hope.

Love is something worth suffering for...

The greatest indicator of success is longevity, and longevity is only achieved by taking small, meaningful, consistent steps in the same direction.