Endurance Quotes

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. (Alfred Hitchcock)
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. View quote
John Ruskin
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. View quote
Joseph Conrad
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. View quote
Albert Einstein
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Heroism is endurance for one moment more. View quote
George F. Kennan
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy-some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
All things are the same,-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried. (Marcus Aurelius)
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. View quote
George F. Kennan
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. View quote
William Barclay
I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds. View quote
Morrissey
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. View quote
Djuna Barnes
Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation. View quote
Bell hooks
Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance. View quote
Laura Riding
Endurance must conquer, where force could not reach. View quote
George MacDonald
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California. View quote
John Steinbeck
The victory of endurance born. (William Cullen Bryant)
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly. View quote
Timothy Ferriss
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.