Quotes About Endurance

Greatness does not come lightly. It requires that you make sacrifices of time, interests, and--sometimes--possessions. The further you move toward greatness, the more greatness demands from you.

If impatience would help, Lord Komawara, I would become impatient.

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.

People endured horrors, and then they couldn't talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence.

a person I have come to accept in the way of things here, which, if they can't be changed, they must be endured.

Trouble always comes and no use wishing it didn't. Thing is, to get through it – and out the other side. If there is another side.

How difficult it is to live.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length - beginning, middle, end: a story unfolding.

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Denn Hoffnung ist nichts anderes als eine Scherbe im Fuß, hatte sie irgendwo einmal gelesen, die ewig schmerzt, bis man sie endlich herauszieht.

La esperanza es como una astilla de vidrio clavada en el pie. Mientras permanece clavada en la carne sientes dolor a cada paso que das, pero una vez que te la han extraído la herida sangra un poco y tarda un tiempo en cicatrizar, pero al final uno puede seguir caminando.

What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One by one, the opponents ran out of heat, their voices faded, their steps faltered and finally, with a wry smile and a shoulder shrug, they were forced to admit defeat.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

T'wont be always dark at 6

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins,but by how they can recover when they fall.