Endurance Quotes - Page 9

For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.

German diligence is actually endurance.

Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd . . . Mr Brynner is, quite simply, The King.

Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.