Quotes about Endurance

Level 5 leaders display a paradoxical combination of personal humility and professional will, channelling their energy, drive, creativity and discipline in to something larger and more enduring than themselves.

"Begin with the end in mind" is to begin today with the image, picture, or paradigm of the end of your life as your frame of reference or the criterion by which everything else is examined.

The single most significant factor, he realized, was a sense of future vision—the impelling conviction of those who were to survive that they had a mission to perform, some important work left to do.1 Survivors of POW camps in Vietnam and elsewhere have reported similar experiences: a compelling, future-oriented vision is the primary force that kept many of them alive.

Things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.