Quotes About Endurance

Genius is only great patience.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

Good things are not done in a hurry.

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.

The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Behold, we count them happy which endure.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Never despair.