Quotes About Endurance

That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die.

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life.

And nobody gets out of it, having to swim through the fires to stay in this world.

Things take the time they take.

Many are the hearts               that are weary tonight,        Wishing for the war to cease Ã¢â'¬Â¦

swayed and stretched, but it was sturdy enough to hold their

Ability to Function Despite Imminent Catastrophe.

Capacity to Tolerate Boredom and Low Levels of Stimulation" is one of the recommended attributes on a Space Shuttle–era document drafted by the NASA In-House Working Group on Psychiatric and Psychological Selection of Astronauts.

This book is a tribute to the men and women who dared. Who, to this day, endure ignorance, closed minds, righteousness, and prudery. Their lives are not easy. But their cocktail parties are the best. p

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Though I dreaded the prospect of coping with the heartbreak of the funeral on my own, I felt I had to be there at the end, no matter what. We had been with Diana at the very beginning of the courtship. We had attended her wedding with tremendous joy. We had kept in touch ever since. I had to say good-bye to her in person. I said to Pat, "We were there for the 'wedding of the century.' This will be 'the funeral of the century.' Yes, I have to go.

Justine shook her head mournfully. I do not fear to die, she said; that pang is past. God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and misery; I

Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive.

So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men

All that we have is to live what life brings. Die what death comes.

Could I behold this and live? Alas! Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.

The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery, which insulted my desolate state, and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.

Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?

Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!

could only think of the bourne5 of my travels, and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured.

many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain, and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die, and leave my adversary in being.