Endurance Quotes - page 7

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient. (W. H. Auden)
(Monte) Johnson recalled that: "Wilt had such unbelievable endurance and speed that, if he took off running, there wasn't any chance that anybody would keep up with him. He glided around the track and had the grace of a deer. I said to the coach, 'It might look like it helps us to chase him, but it may kill us because you can't catch someone who runs that fast.' View quote
Wilt Chamberlain
I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution. View quote
John James Audubon
Serpents, thirst, burning-sand – all are welcomed by the brave; endurance finds pleasure in hardship; virtue rejoices when it pays dear for its existence. View quote
Lucan
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of. View quote
Seneca
In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. View quote
Djuna Barnes
My continent is in distress and has been since the beginning of slavery. Leadership is a big problem. My hope is that things will change in Africa. Europe fought endlessly with itself in past centuries; now they have a European Union, not just in name, like the African Union. I hope that someday all the stupid wars on the African continent will end. I am amazed at the endurance of people, whether in Asia or Latin America or Africa, caught up in harsh situations. View quote
Uwem Akpan
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. View quote
Henry Rollins
Another effect of the continual appearance of false and biased statement and the absorption of the lie atmosphere is that deeds of real valour, heroism, and physical endurance and genuine cases of inevitable torture and suffering are contaminated and desecrated; the wonderful comradeship of the battlefield becomes almost polluted. Lying tongues cannot speak of deeds of sacrifice to show their beauty or value. View quote
Arthur Ponsonby
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance. (Jules Verne)
In the plan of forcing by endurance an increase of wages, there are in such methods inherent disadvantages which workingmen should not blink. View quote
Henry George
The struggle of endurance involved in a strike is, really, what it has often been compared to - a war; and, like all war, it lessens wealth. And the organization for it must, like the organization for war, be tyrannical. View quote
Henry George
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen. View quote
Tim McGraw
People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy. View quote
William Faulkner
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. View quote
Louise Erdrich
With all the confidence I have It seems I could go forever But forever has no rest-stops And my endurance sometimes fails Hold me, hold me, hold me in your arms Can you tell me how I'm gonna make it. View quote
Happy Rhodes
Sir Thomas was a sentimental man. He loved Soldiers. He had once thought all men who wore the red coat were rogues and thieves, the scourings of the gutters, and since he had joined the army he had discovered he was right, but he had also learned to love them. He loved their patience, their ferocity, their endurance, and their bravery. View quote
Bernard Cornwell
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well. View quote
Simon Schama
The truth is, that what men demand in life, and miss if they do not find it, is not antagonism and warfare, but struggle, effort, cost, strenuousness. It is not hate and enmity that have ennobled warfare. It is not killing that has made the life of the soldier fruitful in moral lessons. It is the nerve, endurance, hardihood, and courage that we love to see. Of these superb qualities there is likely to be a demand to the end of the human course; for it is out of these things that life is forever being wrought. The grown man conceives the universe, not as two impossible opposites in conflict, but as one harmonious structure; out of his soul, brought into unison with God, all hate has vanished. (Charles Fletcher Dole)
A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident. View quote
Christian D. Larson
True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing. View quote
Neil Strauss
No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people. View quote
Lysander Spooner
The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people. View quote
Lysander Spooner