Quotes about Endurance

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

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.