Quotes About Endurance

Every great oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

No importa que el comienzo sea pequeño; lo que se hace bien una vez, queda bien hecho para siempre.

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

AÃ…Â¥ je tv?j život sebemizernÄ›jÅ¡í, utkej se s ním, prožívej ho.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs

a proof that good books, no more than good men, do always survive the bad.

Be of good heart: be of good spirit. If the battle is not yet won, it is not yet lost either.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed. They will champion the causes of life's underdogs, forging a society without class discrimination. They will supply humanity with music and beauty as it has never known. They will endure.

In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper.

He felt the old bitterness, which he had tried so hard to swallow, rise again in his throat, and he knew there are disappointments that last as long as life.

Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to have given his best years to an active appreciation of the way they didn't come; but perhaps--as they would seemingly here be things quite other--this long ache might at last drop to rest.

There came suddenly an hour after which, as I look back, the business seems to me to have been all pure suffering.

She hadn't given up yet, and the broken sentence, if she was the last word, would end with a sort of meaning.

I'm a survivor—a survivor of a general wreck . . . everyone else has gone . . . I'm all that's left.

I'm sure you've an excellent spirit; but don't try to bear more things than you need.

Art is long. If we work for ourselves of course we must hurry. If we work for her we must often pause.

Y]ou are passing through a darkness in which I myself in my ignorance see nothing but that you have been made wretchedly ill by it; but it is only a darkness, it is not an end, or the end. Don't think, don't feel, any more than you can help, don't conclude or decide—don't do anything but wait.

Sorrow comes in great waves—no one can know that better than you—but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

I had no time to make a world of my own: I had to stay fixed like Atlas, my feet on the elephant's back and the elephant on the tortoise's back. To inquire on what the tortoise stood would be to go mad.