Quotes about Endurance

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose, must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment".