Quotes about Endurance

For many of us, we will come to the point where death will be the only healer for the pain which our lives will have come to contain.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Actually, it's a survival trait," she finally concluded. "That's what it is. It is a human survival trait and without it we perish.

Hope," Jane said, "is what enables us to keep going in the face of adversity. It is what we desire to happen, but we must be prepared to work hard to make it so.

It was from a species long thought to be extinct—a species known only from the fossil record, a species that turned out to have survived for two hundred million years. Those trees, who came to be known as Wollemi pines, had been in that canyon, getting on with their lives, through seventeen Ice Ages!

A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt.

You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.