Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old endurance quotes, endurance sayings, and endurance proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.Dick Francis
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In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.Albert Camus
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We all have the strength to endure the misfortunes of others.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.Chin-Ning Chu
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.J.R.R. Tolkien
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To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.George Mueller
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It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.Mia Hamm
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Endurance pierces marble.Moroccan Proverb
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Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.Harry Emerson Fosdick
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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.Philip Sidney
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If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.Drew Barrymore
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished. To endure, and go calmly on!Ben Jonson
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.James Russell Lowell
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.Maya Angelou
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Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.Friedrich Schiller
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Endurance is not a young person's game. I thought I might even be better at 60 than I was at 30. You have a body that's almost as strong, but you have a much better mind.Diana Nyad
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.Jules Verne
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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.Virgil
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At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.Tabitha Suzuma
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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.Maria Mitchell
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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
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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.Tom Robbins
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore: in life and death a chainless soul with courage to endure.Emity Bronte
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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.Epictetus
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Those who can bear all can dare all.Luc De Clapiers
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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.Matthew Quick
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No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.Greg Kincaid
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Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.Hubert Selby Jr.
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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
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.Charles Dickens
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.William Cowper
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He conquers who endures.Persius
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If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.Corrie ten Boom
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius
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Don't fear the gods. Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and what is terrible is easy to endure.Epicurus
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Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.William Barclay
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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.Virgil
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.Marcus Aurelius
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.John Ruskin
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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
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Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.Chuck Palahniuk
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Endurance is patience concentrated.Thomas Carlyle
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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
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.John F. Kennedy
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.Frederick Douglass
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If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.Sarah J. Maas
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No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.David Hume
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If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.Kathrine Switzer
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In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.Heart Warrior Chosa
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.Napoleon Bonaparte
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A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.Leo Tolstoy
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Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.Mikhail Naimy
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You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.Janet Jackson
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.Gautama Buddha
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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.Lord Byron
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.Robert Burns
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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.Jean Jacques Rousseau
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He who loses wealth loses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses his courage loses all. Miguel de Cervantes
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It even helps stupid people to try hard. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. Mark Twain
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Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. Mark Twain
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There are no gains without pains. Benjamin Franklin
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We should never despair; our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times. George Washington
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.Calvin Coolidge
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I decline to accept the end of man... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. William Faulkner
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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune—make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Theodore Roosevelt
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There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the blackness of corroding despair. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Patient endurance is the perfection of charity. St. Ambrose
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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.Arthur Christopher Benson
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Nothing great was ever done without much enduring. St. Catherine of Siena
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We conquer—not in any brilliant fashion—we conquer by continuing. George Matheson
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Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend on the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the everlasting and sanctified bull-doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold. A. B. Meldrum
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The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller
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With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot in restful content. Be not content until you reach the mountain's summit. J. R. Miller
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Does the road wind up-hill all the way? / Yes, to the very end. / Will the day's journey take the whole long day? / From morn to night, my friend. Christina Rossetti
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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.Harry S. Truman
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Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships. Virgil
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Bear and endure to the end; one day this pain will be useful to you. Roman Proverb
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By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome. Roman Proverb
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicurus
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The palm tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, and even so the character of man. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom.Kossuth
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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.James Baldwin
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The deeper your passion the greater your endurance.Ranal Currie
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Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.Bruce Lee
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When you have endurance, you have the key to every test in life.Nichola L Stephenson
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Who speaks of triumph? Endurance is everything! Al Pacino
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I will love the light because it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.Og Mandino