Endurance Quotes Quotes & Sayings

I think about the people I know with the absolutely largest hearts, people with a stunning capacity for endurance and grace and kindness against the most screaming terrors and pains. My Mom and Dad, for example, enduring the death of their first child at six months old, the boy the brother I never met, dying quietly in his stroller on the porch in the moment that my mother stepped back inside to get a pair of gloves because the crisp brilliant April wind was filled with a whistling cutting wind....

Fifty years later after five more children and two miscarriages she is standing in the kitchen with her usual eternal endless cup of tea and I ask her: How do you get over the death of your child?

And she says, in her blunt honest direct terse kind way,
You don't.
Her face harrowed like a hawk for a moment in the swirling steam of the tea.
p112-13 — Brian Doyle

No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened. — Jason Dias

Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it? — T.F. Hodge

Survival is the foundation of endurance; complete triumph is the endgame. — Bohdi Sanders

The endurance mood is the suppression of pain. Pressing ahead towards achieving the ultimate goal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A winner endures all pain. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Try to live with whatever you can afford and avoid putting yourself in an awkward position of thinking how you can afford what you have failed to afford, please free your life on earth. — Auliq Ice

The sky is not my limit...I am. — T.F. Hodge

The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come. — Kemi Sogunle

Wait patiently for what you want. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain only last for a moment. Endurance last for a lifetime. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Stars show up in the morning
though ever present at night,
such are those who endure patiently
for their birthright. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity. — Carlos Wallace

God's grace, mighty deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Head up, heart open. To better days! — T.F. Hodge

Drinking caffeinated drinks including high potency energy drinks, and consuming other enablers, we do not need to develop an internal source for the energy, effort, endurance, and enthusiasm needed to confront each day. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Every stage of life has its own challenges. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live life in the power of the Holy Spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I learned to run toward the pain, not away from it. There is nothing like that feeling: pushing, your legs like two powerhouses, your cadence a seemingly effortless rhythm in sync with your mind, every emotional pain you ever experienced washed away by your power to endure. A personal thought I often have after a great run: The pain of running relieves the pain of living. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

What endurance is to the body, is what perseverance is to the mind. — Manuela George-Izunwa

Between the Mile

I have always counted the miles.
Sometimes they came quick,
Other times slow.
The distance between things,
The way I could know.
Close could feel far,
And far could feel near.
The miles that passed too quickly,
The ones I ran out of fear.
They weren't all the same,
So I had been told,
The unmarked trails,
And the days I was bold.

Some miles went down,
Spiraling so low,
When I was afraid to look forward,
There was nowhere to go.
The sunset came fast,
And the day turned to night,
But the trails could be endless,
If I looked at them right.

Everything I knew,
All I was told,
The conversations left behind,
The people who grew old.

When the miles stretched out before me,
I wanted to sew them at the seam,
Looking forward and then back,
Holding everything in between. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

I can endure darkness as long as, I can hope that a new sun will rise tomorrow. — Auliq Ice

It occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the concept of brunt, of accepting and enduring, still seems to me to have a kind of nobility. It is, perhaps, less intelligent, but there is a stubborn selfhood about it that is dear to me. It can be, quite literally, the only way to survive. — Anne Truitt

Teaching without talent, compassion and endurance is like an octopus on skates - there will be movement without direction. — Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

The difficulties of life are part of life's journey on earth. Grace is needed for endurance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself. — Greta Garbo

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean. — Donald L. Hicks

Enduring the times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Good things come to those who wait,
better things to those who toil,
and great things to those who endure. — Matshona Dhliwayo

With all the strength; Love encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith and acceptance of whom you love. — Auliq Ice

They continued to run together for the next thirty minutes. Not a word between them, only the unspoken pulse of the run. Jacob believed runners shared an implicit doctrine: push through the pain to hit a point where it doesn't hurt anymore. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

In times of difficulty, say to yourself, ' I will not give up, I shall prevail. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All too often, we are pleasing the enemy MORE than we are pleasing God by living defeated. Jesus did not die for us to walk around defeated. You have the POWER to turn any situation around that you want to. — Sandra M. Michelle

Paying the price for your dreams proves you can afford them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Fear is a probability by its own cause of actions, if we live by it we lose all the possibilities of endurance — Saleem Durrani

The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there. — Auliq Ice

Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success — Agona Apell

Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience. — T.F. Hodge

Peace doesn't deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty. — Glenn C. Stewart

Endurance is a good virtue. — Aleksandra Layland

Alas! this is not what I thought life was.
I knew that there were crimes and evil men,
Misery and hate; nor did I hope to pass
Untouched by suffering, through the rugged glen.
In mine own heart I saw as in a glass
The hearts of others ... And when
I went among my kind, with triple brass
Of calm endurance my weak breast I armed,
To bear scorn, fear, and hate, a woeful mass! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

During times of persistent hardship is when the warrior learns the most about his fortitude. — Bohdi Sanders

True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.
And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can't see. We believe there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent, our bodies can't contain it. — Amy Harmon