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.
Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion. . . . they need our legs & lungs of endurance.
Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the faithful to enter it by any other way, unless they come through the narrow gate of trials and tribulations, the divine oracle rightly commands us, saying: 'Strive to enter by the narrow door' (Lk. 13:24). Again He says, 'By your endurance you will gain your souls' (Lk. 21:19), and, 'Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of heaven' (Acts 14:22).
Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.
There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women. . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.
. . . . . . And she's courageous but scared to death But that's what courage means
Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
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.
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.
Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.
With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage.
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
He that endures is not overcome.
For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself.