Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.

Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which keeps a man on his feet with his face to the wind. It...

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next...

I am enduring temporary sufferings to fulfill my dearest dreams.

Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it’s utterly glorious.”National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Pep Talk

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all...

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he...

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

Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one.

The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don’t get master’s degree by attending school on the first day of your life! Time...

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

Relieve your pain.Shedding tears is good for the soul.

It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not...

A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by...

Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.

Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!

My love is ripe for the peaching. Let me make Georgia to you all night long—and if I have the endurance, maybe even up to South Carolina.

Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.

If there is nothing to lose but something to gain by trying, by all means one should keep trying.

…be as fast as Usain Bolt, the winner is the winner, even if he crawls like a crab, his destiny is unshakable.

Love runs the engine

They could have fought against it, begged for another way or gone off the path in hopes of finding an easier passage. Instead, they looked upon the trail ahead, the rough ridge, now bound by...

Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread....

All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence!

Life is still very much the same since I said I love you and she said nothing. That was two months ago, and neither one of us has yet to hang up the phone. I...

Marial and Uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but Salva knew that both of them would have wanted him to survive, to finish the trip and reach the...

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.

Head up, heart open. To better days!

When things go wrong, just do your best to make it through the day and you’ll be okay in a short time.

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of...

Success is reserved for you if you persevere; it’s not deserved by you if you are indolent!

Sometimes, for the present,” I said, turning to April, “all we can do is hold on. Sometimes it’s that ability, and that ability alone, that gets us through the rough parts. But if we do...

Endurance-Suppression of the pain. The pain is severe at threshold. After the threshold, capacity is built to sustain the pain. The pain is lessen when the strength of might is achieved. Mankind can endure all...

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. … When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.

Life isn’t a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies,...

Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.

Sometimes it seems that men–yes, and even women too!–if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn’t have believe possible.

When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end.

I can make love for hours, give or take 117 minutes.

Greatness emanates through endurance and triumph over the difficulties in life.

God gave the day, God gave the strength.

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith.

On the second floor was the office in which Houston pounded an ancient typewriter with two fingers, always setting an example of unceasing hard work for his admiring students. They had no hint of the...

When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key. Don’t give up too early; insist to endure to the end… You will never regret it!

[…] what’s the use of lying down to die as long as we can stand up and walk.

Enduring the times.