Quotes About Endurance

Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.

Laws die, but Books never.

Patience will achieve more than force.

In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad...How can'st thou endure without being mad?

bowing over still further his chronically broken back, he toiled away, as if toil were life itself, and the heavy beating of his hammer the heavy beating of his heart.

Hope proves a man deathless.

When Angelo paints even God the Father in human form, mark what robustness is there. And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.

It] recquires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.

eats the whale by its own light, does

Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.

Oh! my friends, but this is man-killing! Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm, and then, with weary patience, cleansed ourselves from its defilements, and learned to live here in clean tabernacles of the soul; hardly is this done, when--There she blows!--the ghost is spouted up, and away we sail to fight some other world, and go through young life's old routine again.

Well, well; no more. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, black-smith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad? - What wert thou making there?

My lord, like one's cranium, it will endure till broken.

to you, I have never known anything like it. But I have brains enough to know that a bed takes up a very small space in a house, and that you don't spend a marriage sleeping with a person but waking with her. It's the waking part with you that I will no longer endure, come hell or high water. I will not be driven on and on to that looming goal, a love nest in the suburbs. I WANT NO PART OF IT OR OF YOU, do you understand? If I had

People who can solve a lot of problems by simply dying are the ones who hang on and on.

Here they resisted to the last, with their swords if they had them, and if not, with their hands and teeth

He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

Everyone has problems... Everyone faces challenges... Overcomes them one by one... And gets a little stronger each time...

It's the living who struggle to accept death.

I'll die, but before I'll run

O amor é como a gerra; é fácil, mas muito difícil terminar.

Take courage, my heart: you have been through worse than this. Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.