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Quotes About Endurance

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.
~ Melvil Dewey
It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
~ Margaret Mead
Women are capable of enduring a tremendous amount of disappointment and still have a good life.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.
~ Widad Akreyi
Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
~ Bear Grylls
Your very success is what's going to destroy you. The survival mechanism that you've developed is the very thing which will cause the downfall of your subtle physical body.
~ Frederick Lenz
If it's not true love, then that energy will gradually wear the subtle physical down.
~ Frederick Lenz
I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.
~ Elizabeth Berg
The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
God knows (She knows) that women try.
~ Gloria Steinem
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
~ James Thurber
Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate.
~ Jeanne Phillips
Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like... bottle rockets.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
There is nothing enduring in the life of a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
~ Judith Anderson
Some women are like elephants. I don't mean size, I mean they never forget.
~ Laura Schlessinger
If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.
~ Maya Angelou
The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
~ Steven Pressfield
The training of a Mord-Sith takes years - to learn to handle the pain. I guess it's also why only women are Mord-Sith, men are too weak.
~ Terry Goodkind
You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
~ Will Rogers
The pleasing punishment that women bear.
~ William Shakespeare
Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.
~ Alyssa Cole, Let Us Dream
No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.
~ Nikki Rowe