Quotes About Endurance

Firestar and Dustpelt were dead; Graystripe and Sandstorm were the last remaining cats of their generation.

With this life I give you patience." It was Goosefeather's turn. His gaze was lucid, his voice gentle. "You will need it.

A warrior is heart and mind. It is not how we hunt and fight that defines our success, but how we face tragedy, how we rise above it. This is how we prove we are true warriors.' - Leopardfur

The fire has burned out, but to dispel the darkness you must find the spark that remains

With this life I give you endurance. Use it to keep going, even when you feel as though all hope and strength have left you.

He won't last the winter if we stay here, though," Mousefur

You're stronger than you think

With this life, I give you persistence." A bolt of energy, as fierce as lightning, seared through Tigerheart. He stiffened against the pain, but it melted into a soft warmth through which he could feel the strong steady beat of his heart. "Don't let failure sap your determination or rejection change your mind. A true leader tries as many times as it takes to succeed.

No, I think I lay on a thistle.

Speed isn't everything," Stonepelt told her. "A warrior who runs ahead of the prey catches less.

With this life I give you patience

I don't know," he mewed. "But we'll get used to it. You can get used to anything." There was a grimness to his mew that filled Sunbeam with foreboding. Rootspring was younger than her, but he sounded a lifetime older. Had losing Bristlefrost made him like this? Or did the Dark Forest have that effect on every cat who set paw there?

ShadowClan will do what we always do, he told himself. We'll survive.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten and still function, still talk and smile and concentrate?

Kiss till the cow comes home.

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

Your body doesn't carry you up there. Your mind does. Your body is exhausted hours before you reach the top; it is only through will and focus and drive that you continue to move. If you lose that focus, your body is a dead, worthless thing beneath you.

The reason the Khumbu Icefall concerns you in Base Camp is that it stands between you and the summit. You must go up and down the thing at least five times, spend about twenty hours in it, like an ant trapped in the bottom of an ice machine, if you are to successfully climb Everest.

It's not a major crisis that will typically cause a woman to melt down. Forces somehow rally to meet these big challenges when they come. It's the little things, the drip-drip-drip of Chinese torture, the dozens of daily irritations that, over time, can send us straight into the fetal position crying for our mommy. Or God. Or chocolate. Or medication. Or all four, depending on the day

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

Their evenings were interminable; their Sundays were like their evenings.

Women have a predestination to suffering.