Quotes About Endurance

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could.

Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible ... the more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

Better to accept whatever happens.

I have learned to live with it all... whatever happens ... all of it.

There are some great roles - mostly in Shakespeare's tragedies which no one can play at full strength from beginning to end. One simply hopes that one can hit the peaks as often as one has the strength.

God alone can finish.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

A great man does not lose his self-possession when he is afflicted; the ocean is not made muddy by the falling in of its banks.

Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.