Quotes about Endurance

Somehow the waiting is harder than the battle itself.

Passion lasts but a moment, compassion a lifetime.

When she felt the tears coming up, building like a great hard pressure inside her, hot, so hot she thought they would burn, she swallowed them down deeper and deeper until they became a hard little stone in her chest.

Oh, Lord, I don't know what's happened over there, but You know. You see into men's hearts, and their plans are laid bare before You. Nothing is hidden. Jesus, please strengthen me. I'm an old man and tired of the battle. Renew me. Give me the strength to keep running the race.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

You do not beg the sun for mercy. -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time.

To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice?

Show no mercy. Never stop. Mercy is a chimera. It can be defeated by the stomach rumbling its hunger, by the throat crying its thirst.

If you stay high in the storm you'll survive.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.