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Quotes About Endurance

The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
~ Aeschylus
Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
~ Anthony Trollope
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
~ Brendan Behan
Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.
~ Carl Jung
Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.
~ Louis L'Amour
Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.
~ Maurice de Saxe
In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.
~ Philemon
A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.
~ Jack Vance
Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.
~ John Currin
A strongest man is the loneliest one
~ Khem Veasna
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
~ Teresa of Avila
Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.
~ Confucius
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
~ Confucius
I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
~ Dusty Baker
A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
~ Louis L'Amour
Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them
~ Marcus Aurelius
It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.
~ Michael Chandler
Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.
~ Arthur Miller
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.
~ Carl Jung
In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
~ Ruth Gordon
There never was a man on earth who pitched as much as me. But the more I pitched, the stronger my arm would get.
~ Satchel Paige