Nina Simone Quotes

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

We all survive more than we think we can.

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.

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.

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

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

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

Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

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

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

Then endure for a while, and live for a happier day!

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.