Endurance is the ability to withstand hardship or adversity. Profoundly inspirational endurance quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
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Famous Endurance Quotes
In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing. – William Cowper
He conquers who endures. – Persius
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. – Gautama Buddha
What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed. – Thomas Fuller
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. – Albert Einstein
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. – Edgar J. Mohn
In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. – Oscar Wilde
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. – Robert Burns
Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. – Walter J Lippmann
If you’re going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something. – Drew Barrymore
For there was never yet a philosopher ―that could endure the toothache patiently. – William Shakespeare
Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it’s the one they will most need to know. – Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
Man’s yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. – Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race. – Henry Ford
Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? – Nelson Mandela
Do you have the talent? is rarely the question. Do you have the guts to finish? is the real question. – Orrin Woodward
God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. – Reggie White
Use your brain, not your endurance. – Peter Thomson
Right now, it’s just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks. – Kip Wells
Endurance is the queen of all virtues. – Chrysostom
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. – Napoleon Bonaparte
If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. – Corrie ten Boom
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. – Marcus Aurelius
Don’t fear the gods. Don’t worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and what is terrible is easy to endure. – Epicurus
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. – William Barclay
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. – Virgil
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. – Marcus Aurelius
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. – John Ruskin
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. – Thomas Mann
Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there. – Chuck Palahniuk
Endurance is patience concentrated. – Thomas Carlyle
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. – John F. Kennedy
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. – Frederick Douglass
If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. – Sarah J. Maas
No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping. – David Hume
If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. – Kathrine Switzer
In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure. – Heart Warrior Chosa
We all have the strength to endure the misfortunes of others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself. – Chin-Ning Chu
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. – J.R.R. Tolkien
To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings. – George Mueller
It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there. – Mia Hamm
Endurance pierces marble. – Moroccan Proverb
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled. Harry – Emerson Fosdick
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. Philip Sidney
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished. To endure and go calmly on! – Ben Jonson
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. – James Russell Lowell
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. – Maya Angelou
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. – Friedrich Schiller
Endurance is not a young person’s game. I thought I might even be better at 60 than I was at 30. You have a body that’s almost as strong, but you have a much better mind. – Diana Nyad
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance. – Jules Verne
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. – Virgil
At the end of the day it’s about how much you can bear; how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves. – Tabitha Suzuma
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. – Maria Mitchell
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson
To be or not to be isn’t the question. The question is how to prolong being. – Tom Robbins
Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ‘Tis all that I implore: in life and death a chainless soul with courage to endure. – Emity Bronte
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. – Epictetus
Those who can bear all can dare all. – Luc De Clapiers
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
No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear. – Greg Kincaid
Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. – Hubert Selby Jr.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. – Charles Dickens
