I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil… — Neil Nakadate Copy Share Image
Every relationship needs an argument every now and then. Just to prove that it is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“On the second floor was the office in which Houston pounded an ancient typewriter with two fingers, always setting an example of… — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image
A novel is 400 pages; it's an endurance race. There's no artist, so I have to describe everything. It's all prose. Whereas… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
“The world doesn’t change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill,… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance,… — Larry King Copy Share Image
I think too often you see parts being taken from one engine to go onto another... That's been too much of a… — Christian Horner Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I… — Chris Weitz Copy Share Image
The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Faith in what you can not see is a sign of belief, that a reward is coming and when it comes you'll… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
When I published my first book, a memoir, the experience taught me that writing something of any significant length was an endurance… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet… — Max Scherzer Copy Share Image
Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Sometimes God pushes us to our limits...He tests us beyond our endurance, because He has greater FAITH in us than we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Things aren't always going to be ok. Sometimes all you can do is just breathe deep, smile to yourself, and let everything… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete,… — Nate Diaz Copy Share Image
The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Victory in life is like starting a journey on a sickbed, it takes courage and endurance of the inner man to prevail… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Everyone has different reasons for staying or getting in shape. I started decades ago because I wanted to be a better race… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
