Quotes about Endurance
You do not beg the sun for mercy. -Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary
— Frank Herbert
Survival is staying alive one breath at a time.
— Frank Herbert
To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice?
— Frank Herbert
Show no mercy. Never stop. Mercy is a chimera. It can be defeated by the stomach rumbling its hunger, by the throat crying its thirst.
— Frank Herbert
If you stay high in the storm you'll survive.
— Frank Herbert
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
— George Washington
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
— Edmund Burke
Relatively mild gusts of wind blow some trees down. Graceful palm trees, for example, are lovely to look at but will not stand up in a heavy wind because they are not well anchored.
— Joseph Wirthlin
As a heterosexual ballet dancer, you develop a thick skin.
— Ronald Reagan
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
— Madeleine L'Engle
On the other side of pain, there is still love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We must pray when prayer seems dry as dust; we must write when we are physically tired, when our hearts are heavy, when our bodies are in pain.
— Madeleine L'Engle