Endure Quotes

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  A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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• That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Remember, Hard

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  Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Courage, Men, Perfect

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  I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Positive, Stars

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino, 1968.

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• The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

  Ben Okri

  Love, Inspirational, Sympathy

  "Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.

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  The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Witty, Clever

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• ...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Struggle, World, Cherish

  Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.129, Rutgers University Press

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  As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Sports, Perseverance

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• Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

  Winston Churchill

  Perseverance, Persevere, Conquer

  Winston Churchill's remarks at the Guildhall after the first British naval victory of World War I (September 4, 1914), as quoted in Martin Gilbert "Churchill: A Life" (p. 279), October 15, 1992.

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• Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• What is to give light must endure burning.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press

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• Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

  John Huston Finley

  Inspirational, Strength, Wise

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• I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Sadness, Grieving

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.22, Bantam

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• I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Strength, Men, Life Being Hard

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• To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Philosophical, Learning

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• What is without periods of rest will not endure.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Relaxation, Periods

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• I'm glad I started so young, because you are really able to endure so much at that age.

  Debbie Gibson

  Age, Able, Young

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• The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.531

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• Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

  William Blake

  Passion, People, Thieves

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.135, Penguin

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

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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• So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

  John Milton

  Love, Life, Boyfriend

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.76

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• False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

  Charles Darwin

  Views, Theory Of Evolution, Long

  Descent of Man Ch. 21, Appleton, New York (1871)

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• Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

  George William Russell

  Life, Sympathy, Communication

  "Open letter to the Masters of Dublin". The Irish Times, October 7, 1913.

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