Enduring Quotes

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. (Nicholas Sparks)
Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity. View quote
Jonathan Ive
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. View quote
Henry Miller
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. View quote
Edward Hopper
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. View quote
Kenneth Clark
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. View quote
Herbert Read
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. View quote
Herman Melville
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. View quote
Mark Twain
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change. (Michael E. Porter)
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God. View quote
Walter Martin
[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. View quote
John Paul Stevens
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. View quote
William O. Douglas
A novelist who ranks with Proust, Kafka, Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. View quote
Italo Svevo
Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two could accomplish separately. Only time, however, could show whether you'd been accurate in your judgment. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion. View quote
David Gemmell
Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition” to the culture in which it is involved. View quote
Alan Watts
What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. View quote
Arthur Golden
My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone. (Mordecai Richler)
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. View quote
Confucius
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers. View quote
Peter Weiss
You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong. View quote
Peter Greenaway