quotations about endurance
If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.
PAUL HAGGIS
Million Dollar Baby
Endurance is the queen of all virtues.
CHRYSOSTOM
attributed, 1001 Unforgettable Quotes about God
Intelligent endurance is a fine thing but foolish endurance isn't; it's hurtful and possibly vicious.
SOCRATES
attributed, The Dialogues of Plato
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Evangeline
Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Columbus
Let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
BIBLE
Hebrews 12:1
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have most need to know.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Emile
Endure the hardships of your present state,
Live, and reserve yourselves for better fate.
VIRGIL
Aeneid
Spend all day doing some marathon event, and you've finally invested the time and energy where you can start developing your endurance: this is the time to discipline yourself to stand proud, walk tall, and maintain a calm demeanor. You are conditioning yourself to maintain your energy through your posture, awareness and attitude. Collapse in a heap and you've wasted the perfect opportunity, unless of course you want to start all over the next day and work on self-improvement after running the same marathon again.
JACK MORMAN
attributed, NOLS Wilderness Wisdom: Quotes for Inspirational Explorations
We live in a day and age where endurance isn't a high priority in people's lives. We want what we want, and we don't want to wait for it or work hard for it. We want results, and we want them now.
EUGENE ROBINSON
It Takes Endurance
Yes, I've endured so much, and you seem to think this means I will endure anything. It does not.
IRIS MURDOCH
The Message to the Planet
God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
BIBLE
James 1:12
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
GEORGE KENNAN
"The Problems of Suicide," , McClure's Magazine, 1908
He conquers who endures.
PERSIUS
Satires
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
PHILIP YANCEY
Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
Sometimes you just wait for the night to be over and endure.
KAYA MCLAREN
How I Came to Sparkle Again
Endurance isn't like an on/off switch where someone either possesses endurance or he doesn't. Instead, it's like a sliding scale where you may have very little at the moment, but you can work to progress up that scale closer toward the maximum humanly achievable limit.
ALLEN WOOTEN
Kingdom Nuggets
The foolish rush to end their lives.
Only the steadfast soul survives.
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN
Lyric Poetry
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
JOHN LUBBOCK
The Use of Life
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
MATTHEW QUICK
The Silver Linings Playbook