Quotes About Endurance

Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep, the trains you have never failed to catch.

I decline to accept the end of men... 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.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Invalids live longest.

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

There never was night that had no morn.

The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

He was dying all his life.

Laws die, books never.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Persistence is the master virtue. Without it, there is no other.

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?

Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.