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Quotes About Endurance

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again If at first you don't succeed, Try, try, try again.
~ W. E. Hickson
There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
They also serve who only stand and wait.
~ John Milton
The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The object of war is to survive it.
~ John Irving
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
~ Pearl Buck
Those who live are those who fight.
~ Victor Hugo
Victory - a matter of staying power.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
~ Alonzo Newton Benn
No wonder can last more than three days.
~ Italian proverb
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock, and assumes 10 different positions in a day.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is no victory without pain.
~ Lolita Lebron
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
~ Abigail Van Buren
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
~ Anonymous
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
~ Dolly Parton
If you want to see the sun shine, you have to weather the storm.
~ Frank Lane
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
~ Yiddish Proverb
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
~ Spanish proverb
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
~ Madame Guizot
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
~ Hugh MacLennan