"Through endurance we conquer."
Ernest Shackleton
48 FAMOUS QUOTES · ENDURANCE
Read 48 famous endurance quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Through endurance we conquer."
Ernest Shackleton
"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
William Faulkner
"Sorrow comes in great waves... but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain."
Henry James
"Any idiot can face a crisis – it's day-to-day living that wears you out."
Anton Chekhov
"Endurance is patience concentrated."
Thomas Carlyle
"Endure, and preserve yourselves for better things."
Virgil
"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
Julius Caesar
"Bear patiently, my heart—for you have suffered heavier things."
Homer
"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
John Ruskin
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”Winston Churchill
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”Vince Lombardi
“There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take. The line between reason and madness grows thinner.”Rosa Parks
“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”Napoleon Bonaparte
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
Christopher Reeve
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
Leo Tolstoy
“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
Angela Duckworth
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”Friedrich Nietzsche
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
Roger Bannister
“Pleasure and pain come and go like winter and summer; they are impermanent, so learn to endure them.”
The Bhagavad Gita
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
Frida Kahlo
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”Bruce Lee