Quotes About Endurance

Fake it till you make it, he reminds himself. This is how he's survived Army life so far.

But a lot of the time that's how it works, life gets so dark until we think all the light's gone out of us. But it's there, it's always there. If we just open the door a crack the light comes pouring in.

A long-term investor is the only kind of investor there is. Someone who can't hold on to stocks for more than a few months at a time is doomed to end up not as a victor but as a victim.

Walter Lippmann spoke of men who plant trees that other men will sit under. Ben Graham was such a man.

It's time for everyone to acknowledge that the term "long-term investor" is redundant. A long-term investor is the only kind of investor there is. Someone who can't hold on to stocks for more than a few months at a time is doomed to end up not as a victor but as a victim.

He could wait, because hatred is patient.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

I'm in pain all the time,' I said, 'and if I gave into it then I'd do nothing.

How anyone could endure three or four hours of chanting monks and ranting priests was beyond my understanding, just as it was beyond my understanding to know why bishops needed thrones. They would be demanding crowns next.

Amavo moltissimo la mia Ceinwyn. Anche ora, dopo anni, sorrido quando la penso; a volte, di notte, mi sveglio con le lacrime agli occhi e so di averle versate per lei. Il nostro amore era nato in una vampata di passione e i saggi dicono che simili passioni si spengono sempre, ma la nostra non se era spenta: si era mutata in un amore intenso e duraturo.

Till time ended, Baird suspected, there would be uses for a man and his sword. He

Till time ends and evermore, that

Reputation! It is the one thing that outlives us. Men die, women die, all die, but reputation lives on like the echo of a song, and men crave reputation, as they crave the heavy arm rings that mark a warrior's victories.

I'm in pain all the time," I said, "and if I gave in to it then I'd do nothing.

And Wessex was the last kingdom of England.

Più sgobbava - la sua fatica era un'immagine del tempo che divora se stesso - meno sembrava possedere.

Save yourself for my sake. And I will go with you to the end of the world.

Nein, schwor er sich, diesmal musste er einen Ausweg finden. Sie durfte nicht sterben! Sie durfte nicht sterben! Und zum ersten Mal kam ihm der Gedanke, dass das Maß an Leid, das er ertragen konnte, eines Tages voll sein würde. Dass alles Eiswasser der Welt seinen Schmerz nicht mehr würde lindern können. Was dann geschehen würde? Er wusste es nicht.

Bernhard Hennen

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

Weil Glück nur stimmt, wenn es ewig hält? Weil schmerzlich nur enden kann, was schmerzlich gewesen ist, unbewusst und unerkannt? Aber was ist ein unbewusster und unerkannter Schmerz?

Warum wird uns, was schön war, im Rückblick dadurch brüchig, daß es häßliche Wahrheiten verbarg? Manchmal hält die Erinnerung dem Glück schon dann die Treue nicht, wenn das Ende schmerzlich war. Weil Glück nur stimmt, wenn es ewig hält? Weil schmerzlich nur enden kann, was schmerzlich gewesen ist, unbewußt und unerkannt?

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.