Quotes about Endurance

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like. They care. That's what I think is important.

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.