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Quotes About Endurance

What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?
~ Cinda Williams Chima
All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.
~ David Zindell
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay?
~ Decimius Magnus Ausonius
But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.
~ Diana Gabaldon
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!
~ Dorothy Parker
Life must go on, Though good men die.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.
~ Edward Dahlberg
A man can laugh while he suffers.
~ Elie Wiesel
How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?
~ Elizabeth Lowell
So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair othe human race.
~ Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.
~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.
~ Ford Madox Ford
I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."
~ Francis Bacon
Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
~ Frank Herbert
The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Every ill man hath his ill day.
~ George Herbert
The life of man is a winter way.
~ George Herbert
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.
~ George Herbert
Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.
~ George Horace Lorimer
Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.
~ George Orwell
She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.
~ George R. R. Martin
I'm a patient man. And when I say I'm a patient man, I mean I'm a patient man.
~ George W. Bush
The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong
~ George W. Romney