290 quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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