Quotes about Endurance

Imagine: to be prepared to yield, to yield, to have nothing more to yield, to be broken, yet to be pressed to yield more!

On the contrary, I am living it out from day to day, trying to accept disgrace as my state of being. Is it enough for God, do you think, that I live in disgrace without term?

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

Beat doesn't mean tired or bushed, so much as it means beato, the Italian for beatific: to be in a state of beatitude, like St. Francis, trying to love all life, trying to be utterly sincere with everyone, practicing endurance, kindness, cultivating joy of heart. How can this be done in our mad modern world of multiplicities and millions? By practicing a little solitude, going off by yourself once in a while to store up that most precious of goals: the vibrations of sincerity.

Surviving Is the only war we can afford.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Resist your fear fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.