Endurance Quotes
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"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."
"So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings."
"Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly."
"At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves."
"Head up, heart open. To better days!"
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.[Remarks Recorded for the Opening of a USIA Transmitter, February 8 1963]"
"No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."
"The sky is not my limit...I am."
"God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest."
"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."
"If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience."
"Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience."
"Don't fear the gods,Don't worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure."
"[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells."
"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."
"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."
"Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it!"
"If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song."
"She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith."
"Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it?"
"It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That’s fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one"
Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
"All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way."
"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."
"Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever."
"You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping into your wildest dreams of self love."
"Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns."
"Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting,the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity."
"You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind,when my wings arefeeling heavy &i've forgottenhow tofly."
"Some teach youwhat can't be taught,by turning their backon you & helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought."
"A wise man once said, 'Life is like breathing. If you try to hold it, you'll lose it. But let it come & go & you'll always be connected to it.'"
"Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that i too can defy gravity."
"There is joy in every circumstance."
"Hope is victory in any hardship."
"...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, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
"With the spirit of endurance, we shall strive in any situation."
"Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention."
"When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace."
"Stay hungry on the path you trod to overcome all odds though fate & the gods seem to pepper your plate with a barrage of sabotage."
"What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?"
"There is never a guarantee of survival, no matter your strength or skill or wit. There is only the day you are conceived and the day you die, and all else is a series of moments you either embrace or endure."
"Greatness is not a term of success, but of endurance."
"When the well's nearly dry and you're not sure you have the strength to persevere, fill up on love and friendship, then take another step, and then another, until you reach your goal."
"You were built for this moment."
"Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here."
"The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives."
"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."
"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."
"Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power."
"The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet."
"A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean."
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