Quotes about Endurance

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

I will work when failures seek rest.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

Christ gives us all we need to draw nearer to him and enjoy him amid difficulties and blessings. We may get tired, but not despondent. We will be sad, but not hopeless. We will endure pain, but we will not give up. We will enjoy blessings, but not grow proud. We see that our lives do not consist only in what we have, how we feel, or what we have accomplished, but in who we are in Christ. This enables us to stand where we would once have fallen down.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Try to bear lightly what needs must be.