Quotes About Endurance

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

Without haste, but without rest.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?

Woe to him who could look on and say: The fool! If she had waited, if she had let time do its work, her despair would surely have subsided, another man would have turned up to comfort her.— That's just like saying: The fool, dying of fever! If he had waited until his strength returned, his circulation improved, the tumult of his blood calmed down, everything would have turned out well and he would still be alive today!

The question, therefore, is, not whether a man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings.

Human nature," I continued, "has its limitations. It can bear joy and suffering, and pain to a certain degree, but perishes when this point is passed. Here there can therefore be no question of whether a man is strong or weak, but of whether he can endure his suffering, be it moral or physical. And I find it just as astonishing to say that a man who takes his own life is a coward, as it would be improper to call a man a coward who dies of a pernicious fever.

Entbehren sollst du - sollst entbehren. Thou shalt forego, shalt do without.

Not Art and Science serve, alone; Patience must in the work be shown. Long is the calm brain active in creation; Time, only, strengthens the fine fermentation.

Exageras tudo e, por certo, cometes pelo menos o erro de aceitar o suicídio, que é do que estamos falando agora, como se fosse uma grande ação, quando não é nada mais do que simplesmente fraqueza. Pois, para ser sincero, é mais fácil morrer do que suportar com firmeza uma vida de tormentos.

It's only life. We all get through it.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Life is always struggle with eternal forces.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

The art is long, life is short