100 Quotes About Endurance

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform. Stephen Fry

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities– I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not–that one endures. Friedrich Nietzsche

There is joy in every circumstance. Unknown

So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.' Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope. Thomas Dutton

..heroes are sometimes the most ordinary -seeming people. It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take the harder road, walk forth bravely under the indifferent stars. We can hazard the ravages of chance. We can choose to endure what seems unendurable, and thereby open up the possibility of prevailing. We can awaken to the world as it is, and seeing it with eyes wide open, we can nevertheless embrace hope rather than despair. Daniel James Brown

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. Orson F. Whitney

Between the MilesI have always counted the miles. Sometimes they came quick, Other times slow. The distance between things, The way I could know. Close could feel far, And far could feel near. The miles that passed too quickly, The ones I ran out of fear. They weren’t all the same, So I had been told, The unmarked trails, And the days I was bold. Some miles went down, Spiraling so low, When I was afraid to look forward, There was nowhere to go. The sunset came fast, And the day turned to night, But the trails could be endless, If I looked at them right. Everything I knew, All I was told, The conversations left behind, The people who grew old. When the miles stretched out before me, I wanted to sew them at the seam, Looking forward and then back, Holding everything in between. . Jacqueline Simon Gunn

LOVE is Leadership through Optimism, Value, and Endurance. Farshad Asl

When your leadership and legacy are built on love, obstacles are overcome through love’s fruit of optimism, foundations are built solid and secure in love’s values, and success is achieved through the strength found in love’s endurance. Farshad Asl

Every endured a hardship is a discipline in the spirit. Lailah Gifty Akita

The breath of wind that moved them was still chilly on this day in May; the flowers gently resisted, curling up with a kind of trembling grace and turning their pale stamens towards the ground. The sun shone through them, revealing a pattern of interlacing, delicate blue veins, visible through the opaque petals; this added something alive to the flower's fragility, to it's ethereal quality, something almost human , in the way that human can mean frailty and endurance both at the same time. The wind could ruffle these ravishing creations but it couldn't destroy them, or even crush them; they swayed there, dreamily; they seemed ready to fall but held fast to their slim strong branches-.. Unknown

A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist. Tahir Shah

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure. Dan Brown

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. Emory Austin

It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you. Zack Love

There was power all around, that power and that goodness, which make us come, as it were, outside our bodily selves, to share them. Over and beside us breathes the joy of hope and promise; under foot are troubles past; in the distance bowering newness tempts us ever forward. We quicken with largesse of life, and spring with vivid mystery. R.D. Blackmore

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother. Charlie Huston

Everyone will not favor you or respect your beliefs, passion and purpose--so be it. But do not allow the views of others to hinder your quest. Remain steadfast. Terry A. ONeal

Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws. Kierra C.T. Banks

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it. Elizabeth Gilbert

Though excessive pride may seek for freedom, it may only see freedom in chains Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good. Zainab Salbi

The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and acts of endurance - have become absurdities, signs more of incompetence, insensitivity, lack of intelligence than of strength. Rosalind Coward

What cannot be cured must be endured. Laura Frantz

Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him. Julius Lester

Every sphere of life demands enduring spirit and strength. Lailah Gifty Akita

If you endure every struggle, you will find your potential strength. Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not quit, endure and find strength. Lailah Gifty Akita

Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own. Herman Melville

Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue. Lailah Gifty Akita

Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself? Rainer Maria Rilke

Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the string, collecting itselfto be more than itself as it shoots? Rainer Maria Rilke

I just hope I'm around long enough to see it through.” Sara said, looking uncertain.“ All of us wonder that, at some point or another, ” Arch replied cryptically. “It's your destiny, and all of fate is aligning to see it come to pass. This next thirty days won't be easy. Hell is sending out its best fighters, and I'm sending out one of mine. I have faith that he will see you through. Rose Wynters

What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the petals of flowers, and everything else worthwhile. And that's as true for the last man as the first. Fritz Leiber

We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again. Rasmenia Massoud

If you wait, you can have what you want, Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is all about endurance. Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is the grace of endurance in the stormy days. Lailah Gifty Akita

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured. Margaret Mitchell

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again. Madeleine LEngle

Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies, fierce winds, and pelting rain. You were meant to be immersed in it all―first to float, then swim, and eventually to walk on water. Richelle E. Goodrich

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation. K. Howard Joslin

Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light-footed strangers, these proud fools who took pride in something they had lost, seeming to be proud that they had lost it. Margaret Mitchell

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent. Rainer Maria Rilke

No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened. Jason Dias

You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand. Richelle E. Goodrich

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish. Tahir Shah

Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine. Bryant McGill

With extra patient, realities will enfold. Lailah Gifty Akita

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently. Francis Of Assisi

If you endured the suffering, shall find the joy of overcoming any difficulty. Lailah Gifty Akita

In the wilderness, we walk and keep the way of the Creator Lailah Gifty Akita

It is not so much what people suffer that makes the world mysterious; it is rather how much they miss when they suffer. They seem to forget that even as children they made obstacles in their games in order to have something to overcome. Why, then, when they grow into man’s estate, should there not be prizes won by effort and struggle? Cannot the spirit of man rise with adversity as the bird rises against the resistance of the wind? Do not the game fish swim upstream? Must not the chisel cut away the marble to bring out the form? Must not the seed falling to the ground die before it can spring forth into life? Must not grapes be crushed that there may be wine to drink, and wheat ground that there may be bread to eat? Why then cannot pain be made redemption? Why under the alchemy of Divine Love cannot crosses be turned into crucifixes? Why cannot chastisements be regarded as penances? Why cannot we use a cross to become God-like? We cannot become like Him in His Power; we cannot become like Him in His Knowledge. There is only one way we can become like Him, and that is in the way He bore His sorrows and His Cross. And that way was with love. It is love that makes pain bearable. Fulton J. Sheen

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned! Victor Hugo

I understand you.– You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.– For four months, Marianne, I have had all this hanging on my mind, without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature; knowing that it would make you and my mother most unhappy whenever it were explained to you, yet unable to prepare you for it in the least.– It was told me, –it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself, whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects; and told me, as I thought, with triumph.– This person's suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose, by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested;–and it has not been only once;– I have had her hopes and exultation to listen to again and again.– I have known myself to be divided from Edward for ever, without hearing one circumstance that could make me less desire the connection.– Nothing has proved him unworthy; nor has anything declared him indifferent to me.– I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.– And all this has been going on at a time, when, as you know too well, it has not been my only unhappiness.– If you can think me capable of ever feeling–surely you may suppose that I have suffered NOW. The composure of mind with which I have brought myself at present to consider the matter, the consolation that I have been willing to admit, have been the effect of constant and painful exertion;–they did not spring up of themselves;–they did not occur to relieve my spirits at first.– No, Marianne.–THEN, if I had not been bound to silence, perhaps nothing could have kept me entirely–not even what I owed to my dearest friends–from openly shewing that I was VERY unhappy. Jane Austen

Jamie reflected that if he purposely went down to the crags of the Pacific and threw himself to the sharks, when he came before God and his father and mother, he could carry no smiling secret on his face. He would not have kept the faith. He would have broken the laws of God and man. He would have allowed frail woman to surpass him in courage, in endurance. He shut his eyes to close out even the imagined look on his mother's face. So right there Jamie crossed off the Pacific from his scheme of release. Gene StrattonPorter

The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come. Kemi Sogunle

Perseverance....It sometimes makes you look like a fool Working at something that that doesn't look cool. Never mind if people mock you from their stool When you are enthroned they will drool! Manuela GeorgeIzunwa

All too often, we are pleasing the enemy MORE than we are pleasing God by living defeated. Jesus did not die for us to walk around defeated. You have the POWER to turn any situation around that you want to. Sandra M. Michelle

Sometimes, for the present, " I said, turning to April, "all we can do is hold on. Sometimes it's that ability, and that ability alone, that gets us through the rough parts. But if we do hold on, then eventually the storm does pass and the sun comes out and we can go on again. Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

When the silence of the night becomes the chanting of poetry, the departure of con-cavity Goitsemang Mvula

May you wait for God’s own fulfilment of His promises. Lailah Gifty Akita

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you. Tahir Shah

Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear Homer

They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots. Steven Tyler

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time. James Crumley

Running strengthens self-motivation. Tumpal Sihombing

Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance. Lorii Myers

Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence. Anthony Marra

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! – it seems to say, – there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are at my side, dear friends, and God is everywhere. Yet ultimately we are alone, making our way home by the candle of the heart. The light is steady and sure but extends only far enough to see the next step. Many times the light seems to go out. But another light, one held by a stranger or friend, a book or a song, a blackbird or a wild flower, comes close enough so that we can see our path by its light. And in time we realize that the light we have borrowed was always our own. Joan Borysenko

It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. I have found that it is even possible to take a certain pleasure out of submission to necessity. That have I borne, this can I bear also. Wallace Stegner

Craving for the top of the mountain is a feeling to yearn for, an endurance we learn from. Goitsemang Mvula

Do not be in a hurry, wait for the harvest. Lailah Gifty Akita

Waiting is not wasting. It is a strategy for champing for greater things. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way. Tahir Shah

It's always been this way, I wanted to tell him. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone. Rick Yancey

Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success. Manuela GeorgeIzunwa

Patience endurance define the attractiveness of life. Lailah Gifty Akita

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. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God' (Hebrews 12:1-2). Jesus was motivated to endure by anticipating the joy of His reward. No amount of hardship and struggle could deprive Him of that anticipation. . Jerry Bridges

The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone. Ellen J. Barrier

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die… Jocelyn Murray

Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question. Orrin Woodward

It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure. Orrin Woodward

The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived. . Han Kang

Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance. Rodney A. Winters