Quotes About Endurance

Buddhism is a philosophy about just doing things bit by bit until the work is done. Ah, but the work is never really done. That's the beauty of it. You'll be doing it all your life, and you will never stop improving at it

If the mind of a practitioner often tires and quits, that is like twirling a stick to start a fire and resting before it gets hot.

When we're tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives.

being a survivor meant that you lived to some degree in a chronic state of mourning, like a low-level fever that waxes and wanes but is never truly eliminated.

Fitness is the only therapy you need.

just because you have achieved something many times doesn't mean you won't have to prove yourself again.

I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.

A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

I am the one thing you can never kill. I am Hope.

Our weakness doesn't make us weak. Our weakness makes us strong. For we had to carry it all these years.

I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know that I survived.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

Other men are strong like bricks - firm, unyielding, but if you pound on them long enough, they crack. You... you're strong like the wind. Always there, so willing to bend, but never apologetic for the times when you must be firm.

Brandon Sanderson

You know," he said, "it amazes me sometimes that we even try. With everything they've done to us—the deaths, the tortures, the agonies—you'd think that we would just give up on things like hope and love. But we don't.

Then [Hurl] sat up, holding out her fist. "Not cowards. No backing down. Brave until the end, right Spin? A pact." I met her fist with mine. "Brave to the end.

He forced himself to smile -not out of pleasure, and not out of satisfaction. He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler -and to himself- that he wasn't beaten. No, he wasn't going to walk away. He wasn't finished yet. Not by far.

You're a sword not a palm tree

None of it mattered. He would just keep living. They'd taken his freedom, his family, his friends, and— most dear of all— his dreams. They could do nothing more to him.

Better to exist in agony than to vanish entirely.

Radiant," he said. "How? How do you still fight?" "The same way you do," Kaladin said. "One day at a time, always taking the next step.