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Quotes About Endurance

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
~ Moshe Dayan
Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
~ Arthur Adamov
I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.
~ Clive Owen
When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.
~ Dan Ariely
To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.
~ Edgerrin James
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
~ George Herbert
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
~ Haruki Murakami
Management is a seven-days-a-week job. The Intensity of it takes it toll on your health. Some people want to go on for ever, and I obviously don't.
~ Kenny Dalglish
Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end.
~ Nicolas Roeg
Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent.
~ Peter Straub
The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.
~ Jewell Parker Rhodes
Every one of us loves Pauline theology, but few of us want Pauline pain.
~ Matt Chandler
Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.
~ Norah O'Donnell
When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around with a quitter.
~ Stephen Colbert
When people get tired they will say, "Enough is enough. If you want to kill us all, you can kill us all."
~ Thomas Mapfumo
Winning once is never anyone's dream. We all want to keep winning no matter what it is, or if we retire, we all still are striving toward something, probably most of us are.
~ Venus Williams
Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.
~ Annie Lennox
I want you by my side. Forever. (Full Metal Alchemist)
~ Hiromu Arakawa
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
~ Golda Meir
We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.
~ Paul Newman
Even in the sad songs, I want people to know that it won't always be like that.
~ Rayvon Owen
Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I'd be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air
~ X. J. Kennedy