Quotes About Endurance

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead.

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Our trials are tests; our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

He who can lick can bite.

When pain ends, gain ends too.

Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

All philosophy in two words, - sustain and abstain.

An arch never sleeps.

One of the recognizable features of the authentic masterpiece is its capacity to renew itself, to endure the loss of some kinds of immediate relevance while still answering the most important questions men can ask, including new ones they are just learning how to frame.

It circulated for five years, through the halls of fifteen publishers, and finally ended up with Vanguard Press, which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

I read part of it all the way through.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointments, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.