Quotes about Endurance

Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador

What can't be helped must be endured.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

Child," she said placing her head to mine and her callused fingers on my cheek, "you can whip it and beat it senseless, you can drag it through the streets and spin on it, you can even dangle it from a tree, drive spikes trough it, and drain the last breath from it, but in the end, no matter what you do, and no matter how hard you try to kill it, love wins.

Pain is weakness leaving your body

I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better." I nodded. "Hearts are like that.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a host of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus.

When you boil it down," he said, holding out his hand and counting with his fingers, "all we got left, all anybody's got, is faith . . . and hope . . . and love." He looked at his three fingers. "And we all gonna make it. All three of us.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.