Quotes about endurance

"Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest."

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington on endurance
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"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

Aurelius, Marcus on endurance
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"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."

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

Brecht, Bertolt on endurance   

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

Buddha on endurance
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"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."

Byron, Lord on endurance   

"To bear is to conquer our fate."

Campbell, Thomas on endurance   

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on endurance   

"The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother."

Dickens, Charles on endurance   

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"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."

Dryden, John on endurance   

"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on endurance
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"What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed."

Fuller, Thomas on endurance   

"Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup."

Lawrence, D. H. on endurance   

"Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on endurance
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"People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear."

Mitchell, Maria on endurance   

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"Those who endure conquer."

Motto on endurance
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"An arch never sleeps."

Proverb, Indian on endurance   

"Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on endurance
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"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on endurance
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"Many can brook the weather that love not the wind."

Shakespeare, William on endurance   

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

Sidney, Sir Philip on endurance   

"Something that irritates you and won't let you go. That's the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."

Unknown, Source on endurance   

"Those who can bear all can dare all."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on endurance
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