Quotes About Endurance

Its not over, until the Lord says its over.

Only through time time is conquered

You will go on, and when you have prevailed You can say: at this point many a one has failed. But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end. I shall sit here, serving tea to friends...

If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory. Now is the triumph of the cross.

Survival is your strength not your shame.

Friendship should be more than biting Time can sever.

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance, Not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast And have conquered. We have only to conquer Now, by suffering.

These are the ones that suffer least: The aconite under the snow And the snowdrop crying for a moment in the wood.

You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you, Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognised by other men, though sometimes by each other.

Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical.

Fight and live, fight and die, God waits for all.

You dream too much, child. Our kind, we make our way with strong backs and closed mouths.

Besides, there was always hope, wasn't there?

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

The only rule of survival in a situation like this: Shut your mouth and keep moving.

Where there's life, there's hope

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," comes from ancient Persia.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

As long as there's life, there's hope.

Face it, Gary told her kindly. You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.

And I think Alanna would quote Sean Connery from The Untouchables to you: At the end of your shift, go home alive. She would say, Don't think about being brave or working hard--just do what you need to do. When you look back, you'll be surprised to see that this was exactly enough.