Quotes About Endurance

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

we often neglect to tell about those who go on in their dogged way to keep the world afloat and who seek to endure in the face of great trials.

those who do not give in and who, through their sacrifices and constancy, keep the horror at bay, keep us from descending into utter chaos and darkness. In doing so, they give us hope.

We don't miss you as you might think. You see, we have made it without you and will always. Take care, and don't ever return to Maasailand.

You asked me once if I would still love you when your lips were puckered with age and your eyes were faded. I can assure you that I will still love you when I have only the strength (and the scant teeth) left to gum those puckered lips. I shall love you when your bones are sharp enough to pierce my fragile flesh. I shall love you when the light in my own eyes fades for good and yours is the last sweet face I see. Because I am and ever shall be…

you will never lack so much of the water of comfort that your thirst will be intolerable;