Quotes About Endurance

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

One can never wait too long.

Many years ago Wallander had learned that one of the manifold virtues a police officer must possess is the ability to be patient with himself.

Patience, he would have said. When stones start rolling down a slope, it's important not to start running after them right away. Stay where you are and watch them rolling, see where they come to a stop. That's what he would have said.

El hecho de que hayamos desarrollado la capacidad intelectual guarda relación, lógicamente, con la supervivencia. En último término, lo único que queremos es sobrevivir. Queremos vivir, no morir. Cada vez que veo a una persona rebuscando en los contenedores de basura veo ante mí ese sencillo axioma: queremos vivir. A cualquier precio.

fighting crime is simply a question of endurance; about which side can outlast the other.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Hope does not mean that we will avoid or be able to ignore suffering, of course. Indeed, hope born of faith becomes matured and purified through difficulty. The surprise we experience in hope, then, is not that, unexpectedly, things turn out better than expected.

We do not have to go after crosses, but we have to take up the crosses that have been ours all along.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.

We tend to be compassionate to the extent that we have suffered the Passion in our own lives.

Our cup is often so full of pain that joy seems completely unreachable. When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He gave us. And to endure well is to keep those commandments whatever the opposition, whatever the temptation, and whatever the tumult around us.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.

They say that characters were engraven on the bathtub of king Tching-thang to this effect: 'renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again.' I can understand that. Morning brings back the heroic ages.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

The spruce, the hemlock, and the pine will not countenance despair.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum, Et documenta damus qua simus origine nati. Or, as Raleigh rhymes it in his sonorous way,— "From thence our kind hard-hearted is, enduring pain and care, Approving that our bodies of a stony nature are.

it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.