May Sarton Quotes

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

I have the strength to endure it all.

Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.

The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

I love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter.

Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

We are powerful because we have survived

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.