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Quotes About Endurance

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
~ Samuel Johnson
Press on, press on, men.
~ Stonewall Jackson
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
~ Thomas Carlyle
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
~ Thomas Carlyle
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
~ Thomas Paine
It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could not endure those remembered words.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.
~ Vachel Lindsay
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
~ Victor Hugo
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men
~ Virgil
Many a good man I have seen go under.
~ Walt Whitman
Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
~ William E. Gladstone
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
~ William Hazlitt
I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
~ William Shakespeare
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
~ William Shakespeare
A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.
~ Albert M. Greenfield
And man will go on. Man, not men.
~ Ayn Rand
Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.
~ Carl Sandburg
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no end to the power a man can obtain.
~ Swami Vivekananda
With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
~ Thomas Carlyle