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

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

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

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

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

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Songwriters, you have to work – you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song’s going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

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

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

A jug fills drop by drop.

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

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

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

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.

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

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

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.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

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.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

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.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

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

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

I start each book when it’s ready and never before.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.