Endurance Quotes

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

Criss Jami

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Aberjhani

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

David Hume

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

Dick Francis

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

Christine de Pizan

At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

Tabitha Suzuma

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

Ludwig van Beethoven

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Haruki Murakami

Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance.

Lorii Myers

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! it seems to say, there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

Thomas Fuller

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Bertolt Brecht

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Maria Mitchell

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Sir Philip Sidney

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

William Barclay

Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.

John Dryden

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

William Shakespeare

An arch never sleeps.

Proverb

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Leo Tolstoy