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Quotes About Endurance

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
~ Louise Erdrich
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
~ Lucretius
Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.
~ Ludwig von Mises
a man who builds a house never really dies.
~ Margaret Mahy
The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I feel like you've got to go through some things in order to get somewhere. He [GOD] took me through nearly seven years of hell, but allowed me to grow and mature into a man and true professional.
~ Michael Clayton
How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!
~ Michel de Montaigne
Video screenshot Facts and figures from Nelson Mandela's life, set to the trailer from 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.' "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."
~ Nelson Mandela
No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.
~ Paula Radcliffe
Love perseveres. It's men who change.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.
~ Paulo Coelho
Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
~ Pindar
A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.
~ Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.
~ Robert D. Hales
Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
~ Robert Jordan
The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.
~ Hal David
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow