Quotes About Endurance

Men are the weak ones, luv. Didn't you know? Oh, you make a lot of noise, but its the women who are strong. Where it counts. In 'ere.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

Men can bear all things but good days.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

Man must endure his going hence.

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.

The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.