Endurance Quotes

By endurance we conquer.

Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

God enters through the wound.

There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

Without patience, you will never conquer endurance.

Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.

Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.

If you stay in the running-if you have endurance-you are bound to win over those who haven't.

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

As you think, you shall become

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

Do it even when you don't feel like it. You need endurance to get through life... When you say you're going to do something and don't do it, you'll feel like you can't trust yourself. How about being able to trust the man in the mirror?

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue;
courage is only the second virtue.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention...miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.

Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.