Quotes about Endurance

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Successful people are those who are willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so that they can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term.

DON'T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile but you have to sigh.

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

I told you, in my last, that He sometimes permits bodily diseases to cure the distempers of the soul. Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of GOD, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.

Life will not always be so hard and cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.

Our job is to stand up for our beliefs, cling to them no matter what, and wait for our redemption. Jesus will not let us down. I

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Gary and Betsy Ricucci point out, "Our Lord has sovereignly ordained that our refining process take place as we go through difficulties, not around them. The Bible is filled with examples of those who overcame as they passed through the desert, the Red Sea, the fiery furnace and ultimately the cross. God doesn't protect Christians from their problems—he helps them walk victoriously through their problems."

Getting fit can be an arduous, even painful process; living fit is filled with much joy.