Quotes About Endurance

In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance that can both imprison and inspire.

The adversity at the brickyard was a reminder to me that love and bricks both need a slow, steady burn in order to become strong and withstand the test of time. I promise to tend the fire of love between us and never let it go out.

I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to be, then I'll endure it, because the only alternative is to live without you, and that is no life at all. And the difference is that I know it, and you don't... not yet...

Despite fiery disagreements about who or what God is and how to make contact, all these religions agree that patience is the essence of spirituality and thus grants great strength. Judaism says, "A patient man is better than a warrior." In Buddhism, bodhisattvas train in this practice to become enlightened. Christianity and Islam deem it a sacred virtue. Patience endows you with faith in yourself and your destiny, an illuminated capacity to deal with frustration and disappointments.

Women can often endure a great deal more than they give themselves credit for

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Patience is simply the mindset of saying "no thanks" to anxiety. – Unknown

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Wenn der Weg weit ist, lässt man sich am besten von Anfang an Zeit.

If you're the only person left, as long as your hope is committed in action, then hope is alive in the world.

Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

I had to laugh. I'd set out on this journey home planning to push Billy past the point of endurance, playing on his misplaced feelings of ownership towards me, and five hundred yards from his door I had succeeded.

Hope could be a cruel bitch

Weakness never got anyone anywhere.

I'm not a gentle pony... I promise you, you will have to work to keep your seat.

But the truth was that some things simply hurt too much. And there were some wounds that didn't heal, not even in ten years.

Change what you can, he'd once told her, and accept what you can't.

He loved her. He worshipped her. He'd walk across fire for her.

It seemed the worst sort of weakness—one with no apparent cause, and unfortunately, one with no clear cure.

I'm quite used to a February chill (as well as that of any month with an R in its name)

I think the human heart must be stronger than we could ever imagine.

Indifference is what death is for us as fighters.

If I ever won the Indy 500, I can tell you that I wouldn't worry about my engine, that's for sure.

I'm definitely more one of the drivers who would want to do Daytona, Le Mans, and the Indy 500.