Quotes about Endurance

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.

The first six years I was kept totally alone. The last six years I had two people staying in the house. The first six years really trained me very well.

I am rarely injured.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life

Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts - not to hurt others.

I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for—only things to endure.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

There is no short cut, no patent tram-road, to wisdom: after all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must be still trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.