Quotes about Endurance
No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.
— John Ortberg
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
— John Calvin
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
— William Howard Taft
Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.
— Karl Barth
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
— Livy
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
— Cicero
The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
— Martin Luther
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.
— Albert M. Greenfield
And man will go on. Man, not men.
— Ayn Rand
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
— JRR Tolkien