Quotes about Endurance

If they be so two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other dar doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like the other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

The Christian life doesn't get easier as one gets older.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.