Job is a great example of persistence in the midst of human suffering. He was stripped financially. His children were killed. His closest friends judged him guilty of some hidden sin, but he determined to overcome.
The opinions of others will never change your character. Ultimately and inevitably integrity wins. Always. Whatever the price, overcoming is worth it.
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.”
(Job 13:15)