Quotes about Endurance

You're never a loser til you quit trying.

"Dead last" is greater than "did not finish" which trumps "did not start."

In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.

Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

Evil is more than the sum of individual misdeeds. Evil has a life of its own. It is not enough to stand aside from it. If it is not actively resisted, it sweeps all before it. Part of a Christian's calling is to resist evil, and in doing so, to endure to the end.

When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.