“women don’t endure simply because we can; no, women endure because we aren’t given any other choice. - they wanted us weak but forced us to be strong.”— Amanda Lovelace, instagram.com
“That answer could involve psychology. Endurance may feel objective, but your ability to keep going — even if it means slowing down — is often ultimately up to you.”— Lindsay Crouse, nytimes.com
“You never understand why you had to wait until you get to the goal. Then, the time needed to mature and ripen make sense. Waiting is hard, though.”— Brittany Packnett, twitter.com
“Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.”— Angela Duckworth, amazon.com
“There are no shortcuts to excellence. Developing real expertise, figuring out really hard problems, it all takes time ― longer than most people imagine... you've got to apply those skills and produce goods or services that are valuable to people. Grit is about working on something you care about so…”— Angela Duckworth, amazon.com
“Interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and inefficient. This is because you can't really predict with certainty what will capture your attention and wh…”— Angela Duckworth, amazon.com
“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.”— Francis Drake, amazon.com
“We must show, not merely in great crises, but in the everyday affairs of life, the qualities of practical intelligence, of courage, of hardihood, and endurance, and above all the power of devotion to a lofty ideal, which made great the men who founded this Republic in the days of Washington, which m…”— Theodore Roosevelt, en.wikisource.org
“You life has made you beautiful. Your suffering has made you fine.”— Stephen Sondheim, en.wikipedia.org
“I don’t think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”— Arthur Golden, amazon.com
“Defeat is also a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”— Bruce Lee, amazon.com
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”— Og Mandino, amazon.com
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Strength doesn’t mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.”— Mr Mark Matousek, amazon.com
“That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com