It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

F2’s much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

God always has patience.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.