Quotes about Endurance

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

I'm a work horse.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

As long as one suffers one lives.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.

Why is it that the hate of man — even of a man like Franco — dies with his death, and yet love, the love which he had begun to feel for Father Quixote, seemed now to live and grow in spite of the final separation and the final silence — for how long, he wondered with a kind of fear, was it possible for that love of his to continue? And to what end?

For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.