Quotes about Endurance

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

For many of us, we will come to the point where death will be the only healer for the pain which our lives will have come to contain.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Actually, it's a survival trait," she finally concluded. "That's what it is. It is a human survival trait and without it we perish.

Hope," Jane said, "is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.

It was from a species long thought to be extinct—a species known only from the fossil record, a species that turned out to have survived for two hundred million years. Those trees, who came to be known as Wollemi pines, had been in that canyon, getting on with their lives, through seventeen Ice Ages!

A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

I feel like everybody's got their health issues and their battles, and yeah, mine go up and down. It's never really over.