Quotes About Endurance

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

Character is that which can do without success.

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.

When love is strong, a man and a woman can make their bed on a sword's blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

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 disappointment, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Despair doubles our strength.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

Experience cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently.