Endurance Quotes

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

Survival is the foundation of endurance, complete triumph is the endgame.

~ Bohdi Sanders

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

~ Neil Nakadate

There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.

~ Alexandra Silber

If you wish to overcome any difficulty, resolved to endure adversity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity tests the strength of endurance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Adversity is test of faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

~ Joy Williams

hThere was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

~ Joy Williams

Be patient and wait for due harvest.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can endure every hardship with hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.

~ Jonathan Edwards

The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.

~ Auliq Ice

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

~ Donald L. Hicks

A good place can always be found in a place you think there is pain.

~ Auliq Ice

Drinking caffeinated drinks including high potency energy drinks, and consuming other enablers, we do not need to develop an internal source for the energy, effort, endurance, and enthusiasm needed to confront each day.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

First the mania for confession,then the mania for clarity,issued from you, dark, hypocriticalsentiment! Let them nowcondemn my every passion, let themdrag me through the mud, call me twisted,foul pervert, dilettante, perjurer;you keep me apart, give me life’s assurance:I burn at the stake, play the card of fireand win: I win this small,vast possession, my infinite,miserable pitywhich makes even righteous anger my friend.And I can do this because I’ve endured you too long!

~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

Are you not in a race, and is not the prize the crown of glory, and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)

~ Richard Baxter

Quite frankly we are both tired of the race we have been asked to run.

~ K. Howard Joslin

Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

~ Tahir Shah

Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full possession of their spiritual faculties; and it is well and wisely ordered that it is so. What we win easily, we seldom value sufficiently. The very fact that believers have to struggle and fight hard before they get hold of real soundness in the faith, helps to make them prize it more when they have attained it. The truths that cost us a battle are precisely those which we grasp most firmly, and never let go.

~ J.c. Ryle

The Existentially Preoccupied Long Distance RunnerSometimes I like to run so hard and for so longwith each mile I can feel the pain of my own awareness,my own heightened consciousness of what ails me,the ills of the world,the limitations of our existence,the losses we must endure,the superficial interactions.Sometimes I like to run so hard and for so longthat I can feel all of these feelings seep out of the pours of my own skin,the sweat cleansing my very being,my awareness of beauty heightened,the experience of joy possible,each mile, each minute, ridding me of these feelings,washing away the illusions,showing me the truth.Sometimes I like to run so hard and for so long…until finally I feel free…until finally I AM free…

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

~ Mary E. Pearson

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

~ Christian D. Larson

A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.

~ Patrick O'brian

If you never persisted, you will never succeed.

~ Vann Chow

In a nutshell: Stress is stress - no matter whether it's from exercise or from lifestyle - and the more stress you're placing on yourself from your lifestyle, the less stress you'll be able to place on yourself from exercise.

~ Ben Greenfield

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

~ Stella Gibbons

Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality.

~ Kilian Jornet

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

~ Dick Francis

Your endurance is strongly influenced byyour fundamental myth about the fighting.

~ Toba Beta

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which keeps a man on his feet with his face to the wind. It is the virtue which can transmute the hardest trial into glory because beyond the pain it sees the goal.

~ Anonymous

Marial and Uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but Salva knew that both of them would have wanted him to survive, to finish the trip and reach the Itang refugee camp safely. It was almost as if they had left their strength with him, to help him on his journey.

~ Linda Sue Park

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

~ Tahir Shah