All Quotes By Tag: Endurance

“On the second floor was the office in which Houston pounded an ancient typewriter with two fingers, always setting an example of unceasing hard work for his admiring students. They had no hint of the fact that their hard-driving dean had contracted tuberculosis while serving as a GI in France in Word War I. Houstan always seemed vibrant and impassioned in the chase for justice as he tried to expose his students to everything relating to the law that might give them an advantage.. . .”I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston,” Marshal told me. “I saw this man’s dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, ‘You either shape up or ship out.’ When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can’t ship out.”So Houston rescued Marshall and launched him into a career as one of the greatest lawyers in American history.”

“Endure to the very end.”

“She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith.”

“May you find the strength of will and the grace of endurance to overcome every challenge.”

“The sure way to succeed Is to endure to the very end.”

“[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.”

“So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it’s your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it’s being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.’Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope.”

“Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, “Image is everything”? And who believed it?”

“Bravado may stir the crowd, but courage needs no audience.”

“God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.”

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”

“The sky is not my limit…I am.”

“Head up, heart open. To better days!”

“Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it’s own was yours and will be yours forever.”