Quotes About Endurance

Adrenaline may fuel short bursts of exertion, but there is no third wind.

It's not that kind of game, Han, she said, her voice sounding like she wished he would grow up and face reality already. The object isn't to win. It's to stay in it as long as you can.

When all around is dark, there is nothing to do but to wait until the eye accustomed to the dark

No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure

Sandwiches,' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.

Keep on keeping on until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

In short, I was constantly receiving some fresh mortification, so that I hardly passed a day in quiet.

Never Give up, never surrender.

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

You cannot expect to be victorious if the day begins only in your own strength.

Keep saying Dear God, dear God. There may still be suffering - but keep touching those people, Lucia, and He won't let you suffer alone.

We do learn and get stronger through the hard stuff, but that's because God is love, not because God's putting us through some kind of obstacle course.

MATTHEW'S RULES OF SURVIVAL 1. Sometimes, the people who mean you harm are the ones who say they love you. 2. Fear is your friend. When you feel it, act. 3. Protect the little ones. 4. If you coped before, you can cope now. 5. Always remember: In the end, the survivor gets to tell the story.

When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story.

I had just one goal—to stay alive until the next day … . But it wasn't just to survive, but to survive as me. —Mario Villani

A power claimed and challenged and thrice carried out is true

There are men who are wolves inside, and want to eat up other people to fill their bellies. That is what was in your house with you, all your life. But here you are with your brothers, and you are not eaten up, and there is not a wolf inside you. You have fed each other, and you kept the wolf away.

Once we're out of the Wood . . ., I said, but my voice died in my throat. I felt odd and sick. Did you ever get out of the Wood, if you'd been in it for twenty years?

However, I must disagree with you very strongly that providing ordinary and reasonable care in any way constitutes coddling, and I have always found that deprivation and hardship, when necessary, can be better endured by men who have not been subjected to them previously for no cause.

But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them.

the same kind of calm as going through a crying jag and coming out the other side, where you know nothing's changed and it's all still horrible but you can't cry forever, so there's nothing to do but go on.

How far would we have to go to run from winter?

She was thinner than she had been. The thing ate only sparingly. Enough to keep Kasia alive, not enough to keep me from watching her wear away, her body growing gaunt and her face hollow-cheeked.