Endurance Quotes

Faster and faster they raced, but no one got hot or tired or out of breath.

~ C.s. Lewis

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs

~ Charles Bukowski

Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.

~ Greta Garbo

Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised

~ Sunday Adelaja

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

~ Plutarch

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

~ William James

Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.

~ Chris Matakas

It seems to me it's not genetic gifts for tolerating stress or resisting pain that take individuals through extraordinary feats of endurance. When it comes to the most daring of Earth's expeditions, success always seems to come down to four factors:One: Physical preparation. Training. You are truly the only thing you have complete control over. No stone unturned.Two: Know everything possible about the elements, the obstacles. Knowledge is power.Three. Surround yourself with brilliant and honorable people. Four. Unshakeable faith. Go so far as defiance. Refuse to accept limitations and mediocrity. I won't let anybody tell me I can't touch the stars because I just might get there. And I will surely never get there if I don't keep trying.

~ Diana Nyad

I learned to run toward the pain, not away from it. There is nothing like that feeling: pushing, your legs like two powerhouses, your cadence a seemingly effortless rhythm in sync with your mind, every emotional pain you ever experienced washed away by your power to endure. A personal thought I often have after a great run: The pain of running relieves the pain of living.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

They continued to run together for the next thirty minutes. Not a word between them, only the unspoken pulse of the run. Jacob believed runners shared an implicit doctrine: push through the pain to hit a point where it doesn't hurt anymore.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty.

~ Charles Dickens

It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will conquer.

~ Terence Macswiney

What happened yesterday was obviously a mistake, and it will never be spoken of again. Goodbye forever.

~ Faith Erin Hicks

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

~ Craig Groeschel

I was the kind to endure. No one had said you couldn’t become a better person through endurance.

~ Knausgaard

Sometimes you do not like the situation. But you have to endure for awhile.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Endurance is a good virtue.

~ Aleksandra Layland

What endurance is to the body, is what perseverance is to the mind.

~ Manuela George-Izunwa

It's okay that I got sick, I suddenly realize. If Lyme hadn't taken me down so radically, I wouldn't have learned about stillness. I would not have discovered my enormous capacity to endure. I would have not have embraced this deeply contemplative place within my own being.

~ Katina Makris

Sometimes you just have to hold on even when you don’t believe in what you’re holding on to anymore. Sometimes you have to hold on to empty and distant memories, even if it feels like there isn’t any ‘you’ left. I think that’s what faith is all about, doing what you need to do even when the feeling isn’t there anymore.

~ James Rozoff

So in order to accommodate the Pioneers who would begin arriving in a few weeks, the Arkitects sent up Scouts. The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russians.

~ Neal Stephenson

During times of persistent hardship is when the warrior learns the most about his fortitude.

~ Bohdi Sanders

We have a calling: a need to be close to Nature, where she may cleanse our souls and wash away the stresses of yesterday. It is emotional recompense for the cost of living.

~ Fennel Hudson

Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.

~ Margaret Mitchell

I’ve felt that I was trying to row a heavily loaded boat in a storm. I’ve had so much trouble just trying to keep afloat that I couldn’t be bothered about things that didn’t matter, things I could part with easily and not miss, like good manners and--well, things like that. I’ve been too afraid my boat would be swamped and so I’ve dumped overboard the things that seemed least important.

~ Margaret Mitchell

I can endure darkness as long as, I can hope that a new sun will rise tomorrow.

~ Auliq Ice

Be strong and kill yourself with the sword of hate and love, then you will not hear the insults and abuse which the enemies of the Church throw at you. Your eyes will not see anything which seems impossible, or the sufferings which may follow, but only the light of faith, and in that light everything is possible; and remember God never lays greater burdens on us than we can bear.

~ Catherine Of Siena

A time is coming when people will go mad, and when they see those who are not mad, they will attack them saying, You are mad, you are not like us.

~ Abba Antony

You have been insulted, and you have been beaten...and yet you have refused to let any of it hurt you where it really mattered: on the inside. You are indeed a stone. You withstand the waves and winds of this world, and you remain strong.

~ Ben Willoughby

When things go wrong, just do your best to make it through the day and you'll be okay in a short time.

~ Auliq Ice

Endurance is not the frail and tenuous thing some think it, but is in reality the measuring rod of our sanity and may be safely stretched to fill our direst need.

~ Jan Cox Speas

Finally, if you ask why this complete picture of the Antichrist is given us in Scripture, my answer is: in order that we might clearly recognize it when it is revealed. And what then must we do when we see it is come? Must we oppose it, must we fight it with the sword? That, of course, is completely impossible. It will come. It must come. And to oppose its coming is entirely vain. Its coming is irresistible. And the battle is not one of, the sword. But as the text has it, he that is for captivity, into captivity he goeth; and if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword he must be killed. No, we cannot oppose the power of Antichrist by main force. When that world-power comes and reigns supreme, we shall be submissive to the last, as far as God and our conscience permit. But here is the patience and the faith of the saints, that in all these times they remain faithful, and refuse to deny the Christ. They wait for the day of His coming. May God give us grace to be found faithful at all times, and watching and praying, so that no one may take our crown.

~ Herman Hoeksema

Try to live with whatever you can afford and avoid putting yourself in an awkward position of thinking how you can afford what you have failed to afford, please free your life on earth.

~ Auliq Ice

A breath, to keep one going, must be one's own.

~ Marty Rubin

When you have endure the worse situations, you build the courage and confidence to cope with any other situations.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are not a victim of your circumstance.Stay determine to endure hard times. No situation is permanent.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

~ John Williams

Love runs the engine

~ Nora Roberts

Do your part to help reap a harvest, and trust God to do His part.

~ Katy Kauffman