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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher · German · 1788 – 1860

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

John Burroughs

Author · American · 1837 – 1921

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Theologian · English · 1828 – 1889

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Scientist · French · 1805 – 1859

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Ovid

Poet

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Soldier · 1820 – 1891

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Anais Nin

Author · American · 1903 – 1977

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

Poet · Greek

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

Denis Waitley

Writer · American

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

Mathematician · Greek

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Julius Caesar

Leader · Roman

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Clergyman · American · 1878 – 1969

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

Nick Rahall

Politician · American · b. 1949

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Hal Borland

Author · American · 1900 – 1978

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Maya Angelou

Poet · American · b. 1928

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Clergyman · American

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fuller

Clergyman · English · 1608 – 1661

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Ralph Bakshi

Director · American · b. 1938

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

Mignon McLaughlin

Journalist · American · 1913 – 1983

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Sinclair Lewis

Novelist · American · 1885 – 1951

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Writer · English · 1672 – 1719

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

Gene Fowler

Journalist · American · 1890 – 1960

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

David Sarnoff

Inventor · American · 1891 – 1971

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Bill Bradley

Politician · American · b. 1943

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.

Thomas Mann

Writer · German · 1875 – 1955

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Denis Waitley

Writer · American

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

Philosopher · American · 1842 – 1910

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

Psychologist · American · 1913 – 2007

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Michael Novak

Philosopher · American · b. 1933

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

President · American · 1767 – 1848

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Nelson Mandela

Statesman · South African · b. 1918

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Abraham Cowley

Poet · English · d. 1667

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

James Allen

Author · British

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Samuel Smiles

Author · Scottish · 1812 – 1904

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

Nick Rahall

Politician · American · b. 1949

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri

Poet · Nigerian · b. 1959

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

George William Russell

Writer · Irish · 1867 – 1935

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller

Businessman · American · 1839 – 1937

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Mary Astell

Writer · English · 1666 – 1731

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Denis Waitley

Writer · American

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Lewis Carroll

Author · English · 1832 – 1898

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

Alan Paton

Novelist · South African · 1903 – 1988

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

Lord Chesterfield

Statesman · British · b. 1694

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

Joseph Conrad

Novelist · Polish · 1857 – 1924

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