Endurance quotes
220 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
"God enters through the wound."
"There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently"
"The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California."
"Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything."
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"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."
"Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness."
"Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience."
"As you think, you shall become"
"All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested."
"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue."
"Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum."
"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."
"The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event."
"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
"Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs."
"Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race."
"We can't reach old age by another man's road."
"Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance."
"Endure and save yourselves for happier times."
"To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure."
"These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed."
"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother."
"Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise."
"All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried."
