quotations about endurance
Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which keeps a man on his feet with his face to the wind. It is the virtue which can transmute the hardest trial into glory because beyond the pain it sees the goal.
ANONYMOUS
Come Be My Follower
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
LORD BYRON
Mazeppa
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.
DEAN ACHESON
A Life in the Cold War
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.
HENRY FORD
Theosophist, February 1930
All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God.
ORSON F. WHITNEY
attributed, We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
He that endureth to the end shall be saved.
BIBLE
Matthew 10:22
He who limps is still walking.
STANISLAW LEC
attributed, Quotable Quotes
Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
CATHERINE MARTIN
Walking With the God Who Cares
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Much Ado About Nothing
Got endurance, I was trained
I got my sights adjusted and my telescope aimed
RAMONES
High Risk Insurance
As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
The Works of Sir Philip Sidney
Somewhere in your home or purse you have a device that runs on a battery.... Like the battery in that device, endurance is there when youneed it. But without occasional recharging, a battery runsout of power. So will you if your energy is not fueled by passion, focus, fun or another renewal source.
VICKIE L. MILAZZO
Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman
To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities--I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not--that one endures.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The Will to Power
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.
MUHAMMAD ALI
The Soul of a Butterfly
Just a functional endurance like a puppet on a string
Never realizing they have taken everything
Ultra steel construction to dictate your destiny
Foundation for a slave machinery
KREATOR
"Slave Machinery", Violent Revolution
What cannot be cured must be endured.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it and is silent.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Letters to a Young Poet
He that endures is not overcome.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
MARK TWAIN
Following the Equator
No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.
GREG KINCAID
Christmas with Tucker