Quotes About Endurance

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.

So long as one does not despair, so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly, things work out fairly well in the end.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way, it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.

Groan and forget it.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

You can see them alongside the shuffleboard courts in Florida or on the porches of the old folks' homes up north.... They are in love, they have always been in love, although sometimes they would have denied it. And because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

He who limps still walks.

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.