Quotes About Endurance

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.

There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Hopeful men do not die so easily.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?