Quotes about Endurance

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

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

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.