Quotes About Endurance

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall.

Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.

Stay calm and pedal on

A dor contínua não dura muito tempo no corpo; pelo contrário, a dor, se extrema, está presente por um curto tempo.

And often we consider pains superior to pleasures when submission to the pains for a long time brings us as a consequence a greater pleasure.

As this is written, a sow bug crawls across a desk. If he is turned over on his back, one can observe the tremendous struggle he goes through to get on his feet again. During this interval he has a 'purpose' in his life. When he succeeds, one can almost see the look of victory on his face. Off he goes, and one can imagine him telling his tale at the next meeting of sow bugs, looked up to by the younger generation as an insect who has made it. And

You gotta do what you gotta do, and when you're done, you'll be stronger.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance. It has always found me, and with God's blessing and permission, it always will.

We are still here, despite everything that has been taken away any moment we aren't looking

Listen through your screams to the wind still whispering: Don't give up -- Surrender!

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of.

Not that I want to go, of course. I'll be like the rest of you, clinging on desperately and screaming for more morphine.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

what we desperately do want to avoid is not merely suffering but suffering without meaning.

Simply suffering—that is what will be needed then—not parries, blows or thrusts such as may still be possible or admissible in the preliminary fight; the real struggle that perhaps lies ahead must simply be to suffer faithfully. . . . [F]or sometime [the church struggle] hasn't even been about what it appears to be about; the lines have been drawn somewhere else entirely.

God's cause is not always the successful one, that we really could be "unsuccessful": and yet be on the right road. But this is where we find out whether we have begun in faith or in a burst of enthusiasm. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If our suffering has a purpose, it is infinitely easier to bear than if our suffering has no purpose and no larger meaning. When a mother endures childbirth, she knows that it is leading to something life changing and glorious.

What happened is surprisingly simple: William Wilberforce was the happy victim of his own success.

We will have to move through a very deep valley, I believe much deeper than we can sense now, before we will be able to ascend the other side again. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

the real struggle that perhaps lies ahead must simply be to suffer faithfully.