Menander Quotes

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Now on life's dreary plain. We must wait, like the Stoic, Brave, enduring, and strong, Till the soul's strength heroic Bend the fetters of wrong

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.

God doesn't give you more than you can handle.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

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.

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

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's mind. She was gentle and quiet in intense bodily suffering, almost in proportion as she had been restless and depressed when there had been no real cause for grief.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

There have been many times in my life when I felt like I'd never pick up the pieces, but God has always given me the power to do it.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.