Quotes about Endurance

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

I believe it's after the honeymoon ends that true love begins. It's in the hard times that the greater virtues of love reveal themselves, like tolerance and patience and kindness.

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!