Quotes About Endurance

The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.

Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.

I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.

I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray.

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex.

The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russian.

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.

He was tempted to park the SUV illegally, since, according to his calculations, the authorities were not likely to catch up with him and demand payment of the parking ticket before the end of the world, but it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise.

this is how it's done, you pile one thing on top of the next and you keep it up and keep it up—sometimes the galleon sinks in a typhoon, you don't get your slab of granite that year—but you stick with it and eventually you end up with something sooo big.