Quotes about Endurance
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!
— George Eliot
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, 'Oh, nothing!' Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt others.
— George Eliot
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
— George Eliot
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
— St. Augustine
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
— St. Basil
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
— Francis de Sales
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
— Francis de Sales
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
— Saint Jerome
To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten.
— Samuel Beckett
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
— Samuel Beckett
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
— Samuel Johnson