Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.

You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.