Quotes on Endurance

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

What does it mean to be true to the faith? That word true implies commitment, integrity, endurance, and courage.

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.

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

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.

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.