Quotes About Endurance

Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying—it seems they never die at all.

Can't fear the fire if you don't scald your fingertips.

You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.

Fling arrows at all the strange things you see out here, and all you do is run out of arrows.

There is no last of the pain," said Bug. "It always hurts. Always." Locke

he learned anew how slowly time could crawl when there was some misery to dwell on.

Time passes and human greed outlasts even the eternal.

The Doomsday weight-loss plan kicks ass.

Old Gífr taught us to make that death as hard as nails.

I married the kind of girl who can love somebody forever.

What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.

We go straight". I say again. "If we start making turns, we might not know what direction is what. If we keep going straight, at least we know how to get back to where we came from if we get into trouble. I know it's tiring, but walking uphill is a good thing-every step we take is a step closer to getting out." "I see shoulders droop, I hear heavy sighs. They don't want to agree with me; they want to go the easier way".

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. The phrase is attributed to Herodotus and refers to the courier service of the ancient Persian Empire.

away—a sixty-mile round-trip with Hoel was about as much fun as a barbed-wire enema.

A panic attack is interesting the way a broken leg or a kidney stone is interesting—a pain that you want to end.

It ain't no broken.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on in spite of it.

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

The human spirit can endure in sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear? (Prov. 18:14 NIV)

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith. (Heb. 12:1–2)

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. (Rom. 15:5–7)

O Lord, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me. (Jer. 20:7)

Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, "My way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God"? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. (Isa. 40:27–29 NIV)

Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. (1 Pet. 4:12–13 NIV)