Quotes About Endurance

10. Take it one oil barrel at a time: You can accomplish the biggest and most complicated job if you just complete it one step at a time.

Las especies que sobreviven no son las más fuertes ni las más inteligentes, sino aquellas que se adaptan mejor al cambio

Willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so you can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term

Thomas Edison once wrote, "My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality." You should practice this principle as well.

The true measure of a man is in how much it takes to discourage him." I

The true measure of a woman is in how much it takes to discourage her." I

I told you, in my last, that He sometimes permits bodily diseases to cure the distempers of the soul. Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of GOD, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.

There is nothing accidental in suffering.

he resisted the temptation to avoid suffering

in each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed.

When man is brutalized in such a place like this, he is looking for small signs. The smallest sign that someone is worried for him is like a fire on the dark mountain. When a man knows somebody cares, he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul, clean and lit.

Life has a habit of going on.

I Shall Never Surrender.

I lay on my back, whimpering at the dark sky, and tried to remember when I'd last gotten my ass kicked this thoroughly. Less than a week ago, probably, because it had been a bad couple of weeks, but

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

Life will not always be so hard and cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

to a perfectly terrible day.

dug in, but he seemed to be feeling no

Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder. But the Voyager record will still be largely intact, in some other remote region of the Milky Way galaxy, preserving a murmur of an ancient civilization that once flourished — perhaps before moving on to greater deeds and other worlds — on the distant planet Earth.

Some thrive for time, while most quickly vanish.

Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing, sometimes even a zest, for life.

I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all you forget. I will die as many times as you make me over again.

My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is - all over...