Endurance Proverbs

Sayings about Endurance

To endure what is unendurable is true endurance. ~ Japanese Proverb

Only he who knows his own weaknesses can endure those of others. ~ Japanese Proverb

The stupid fear fortune, the wise endure it. ~ Latin Proverb

He that endureth to the end shall be saved. ~ Bible

There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune. ~ Traditional Proverb

Spare us what we can learn to endure. ~ Yiddish Proverb

What was hard to endure is sweet to recall. ~ French Proverb

A man can endure the worst pain -- of others. ~ Japanese Proverb

What cannot be cured must be endured. ~ Scottish Proverb

Who wants heat, must endure the smoke. ~ Russian Proverb

Pain is easier to endure than an itch. ~ Chinese Proverb

Insults should be well avenged or well endured. ~ Spanish Proverb

Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure. ~ Jewish Proverb

If you are a peg, endure the knocking; if you are a mallet, strike. ~ Moroccan Proverb

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome. ~ Traditional Proverb

He who wants to eat honey should endure the stings. ~ Lebanese Proverb

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Quotations about Endurance

Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. ~ John Dryden

Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest. ~ Arthur Wellesley

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. ~ Pierre Charron

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. ~ Greg Kincaid

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Through suffering and sorrow thou hast passed, to show us what a woman true can be. ~ James Russell Lowell

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have most need to know. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. ~ William Shakespeare

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. ~ Bertolt Brecht

Things may serve long, but not serve ever. ~ William Shakespeare

"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question. ~ Orrin Woodward

If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you. ~ Paul Haggis

What cannot be cured must be endured. ~ François Rabelais

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. ~ James Henry Leigh Hunt

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

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble. ~ John Lubbock

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear. ~ Maria Mitchell

Those who can bear all can dare all. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues

He who limps is still walking. ~ Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Heroism is endurance for one moment more. ~ George Kennan

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

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. ~ Sir Philip Sidney

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. ~ Buddha

More can I bear than you dare execute. ~ William Shakespeare

Not in the achievement, but in the endurance of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God. ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Prolonged endurance tames the bold. ~ Lord Byron

The burden becomes light that is shared by love. ~ Ovid

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. ~ William Barclay

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

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes. ~ Washington Irving

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. ~ Dante

Allowing everything that can be claimed for the superior patience and self-command of women, still the main solution of their enduring pain better than men is their having less physical sensibility. ~ Thomas Moore

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed. ~ Thomas Fuller

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens. ~ Sir Philip Sidney

Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts. ~ James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. ~ Christoph Martin Wieland

Sometimes you just wait for the night to be over and endure. ~ Kaya Mclaren

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

The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing. ~ William Cowper

The seal of suffering impressed upon our destiny announces in clear characters our high calling. ~ Joseph Marie de Gerando

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For there was never yet philosopher, that could endure the toothache patiently. ~ William Shakespeare

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know. ~ Samuel Smiles

He conquers who endures. ~ Persius

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles which are imposed upon it; it is thus that we enter upon the most perilous plans after having had the shame of failing in more simple ones. ~ Rene Sieur de Rapin

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

To bear is to conquer our fate. ~ Thomas Campbell

Endurance is the queen of all virtues. ~ Chrysostom

The men, who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. ~ Charles Dickens

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. ~ Mark Twain

Endurance is patience concentrated. ~ Thomas Carlyle

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

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. ~ Aesop

Patience and time conquer all things. ~ Pierre Corneille

He that endures is not overcome. ~ George Herbert

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