Quotation Explorer - 'Endure'

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one - Bruce Lee
There is no point of relaying statistics on rape because for every figure given there are thousands missing, unreported. It is a shameful state we have created where a victim chooses to endure the pain and suffering, silenced by fear that judgment will come before justice. - Aysha Taryam
The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked. - Thomas Moore
we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will. And we shall continue to love you. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years. - G.K. Chesterton
The only magic cure is to endure. - Marty Rubin
I believe that death should not be feared instead we should endure life and give our best even though life isn't always fair we shall always enjoy life the way it comes and if death is upon us its cause its time for us to go knowing that there is something better for us..... - Miguel Angel Puma
If you can endure, if you can persevere, if you can work and not grow weary, if you're both obsessed and talented, well, you might have a shot. - Auliq Ice
It takes grace to endure hardtimes - Lailah Gifty Akita
Although you and I have crossed each other, we two are destined by the heavens to be together. There will come a day when the two of us will join together to do great things. But until then, you must wait and endure any hardship and danger that may come your way. - Auliq Ice
Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect. - Kathryn L. Nelson
I'm willing to grind, endure & suffer to wake that beast within me, to grow, accomplish & win. - Sachin Kumar Puli
The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked. - Thomas More
I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him. - Huldrych Zwingli
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Nay, tempt me not to love again: There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again. - Sir Thomas More
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. - George Bernard Shaw
To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen. - Jerome Groopman
Endure the storm, but don't forget to enjoy the rainbow and the thunder. - Debasish Mridha
Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities. - Emil Cioran
He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. - Greek Proverb
Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit. - Mike Corbett
A heart with love can endure every pain.Give away love, give away joy, to feel again - Debasish Mridha
The journey may be long for those who accept the challenge. And, if you endure the storms along the way the rewards for doing so are that much greater. - Michael A. Contés II
Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it. - Bruce Lee
All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles. - Teresa of Ávila
Endure every hardship with hope. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Time has no meaning,Love will endure.. - Jude Deveraux
Reckon your weakness as praise of God’s power, endure suffering in joy, risk your life on the veracity of Christ, count your loneliness a means of grace. - William Stringfellow
Sooner or later, we all learn that our immortality is rooted not in our professional involvements and achievements, but in our families. In time, all of our wins and losses in the workplace will be forgotten. If our memories endure, it will be because of the people we have known and touched. - Harold S. Kushner
Jazz will endure as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains - John Philip Sousa
What you will endure determines what you will become. - Faydra D. Fields
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free. - Mark Twain
For the one who ‘enjoys’ (worldly) happiness, there will come a time for him to endure sorrow. - Dada Bhagwan
Endure pain to turn it into your power. - Debasish Mridha
God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure. - Jim George
If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't - Cassandra Clare
We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines. - Samael Aun Weor
You're not broken beyond repair there is hope. There is a God who knows all the pain you endure and will heal, protect and rejuvenate you. - Pauline Seaport
I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive. - Maya Angelou
Faith gives us the courage to endure every circumstance. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Pour on, I will endure. - William Shakespeare
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. - Edward Thorndike
I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope. - William Walsh
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. - Betty Friedan
Stamina is utterly important. And stamina is only possible if it's managed well. People think all they need to do is endure one crazy, intense, job-free creative burst and their dreams will come true. They are wrong, they are stupidly wrong. - Hugh Macleod
Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home! - Marjane Satrapi
I am made only for passion; it is the temperature of love that I cannot endure. I am afraid, and I think it is death- everything but passion seems like death to me. Only in fever do I feel life. - Anaïs Nin
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. - Mark Twain
The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasion them. - Vince Lombardi
You are a winner when you have the courage to face the adversity and endure the difficulties. - Debasish Mridha
I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times. - Terraine Francois
What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. - Epictetus
Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained. - Marcia Angell
A few thoughts on crime and punishment:Punishment—either don’t merit it, or learn to embrace it.It is easy to endure punishment, much harder to accept it.Committing a crime is like incurring a debt: you can either pay it off now, or pay it off later—with interest. - Clifford Cohen
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. - Samuel Johnson
A romance book is designed to tell you something about love–its ability to endure, forgive, go the extra mile, care about someone, put someone else first. - Dee Henderson
I can endure my own despair but not another's hope. - William Walsh
There is no doubt that the most effective way to heal my pain is to purposefully put it to work healing the pain in the life of another. But that means I must endure the pain of not focusing on 'my' pain. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome. - Tina Samples
Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality. - Debasish Mridha
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. - George Bernard Shaw
The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. - Elbert Hubbard
Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure. - Anthony Liccione
The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour. - Kenneth Rexroth
The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come. - Kemi Sogunle
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. - Horace
You can endure every hardship with hope. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life. - Garrison Keillor
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. - Kurt Vonnegut
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old. - George Fabricius
LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge. - Ambrose Bierce
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. - Vince Lombardi
He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. - Yiddish Proverb
Joy of harvest belongs only to those who endure the pain of sowing. - Sunday Adelaja
Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe. - Kamand Kojouri
To be forced to endure something because you have no money to counter it ; this fact is totally unfair and I can't, personally, tolerate it. - Laure Lacornette
I can only see life as this most miserable accident that I have been forced to endure simply because I refuse to see it as the most astounding plan that I have been privileged to engage. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him. - Julius Lester
Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives. - Iimani David
At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure to lay her brother on the pyre and live; and the house beheld a two-fold woe, and all Cyrene bowed her head, to see the home of happy children made desolate. - allimachus and Lycophron CXLII
Some people feel the coolness of winter and complain. Some people endure, enjoy, and wait for spring. - Debasish Mridha
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. - Henry Fielding
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. - Christopher Reeve
Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet knew she could not be near that boy again. - Coco J. Ginger
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it. - Samuel Johnson
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain
The soul gets tougher with every endure situation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Reckless of my mortality,Strengthen me to behold a face,To know the spirit of a beloved oneYet to endure, yet to dare! - Edgar Lee Masters
Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there. - Francis de Sales
Men don't cry. They endure. - Sharfaraz Ahmed
To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endure the betrayal of false friends;to appreciate beauty;to find the best in others; to leave the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again. We'll need to be brave to endure the many fears and hardships and the suffering yet to come. - Anne Frank
Patience, more than the ability to bear pains or endure waiting, is to be calm no matter what happens constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting. - Roy T. Bennett
A man who withstands all stress given by his spouse and keeps mum on all major matters of his house, often stays long at the workplace because the training imparted by a wife comes handy in the service life to either endure the undue job pressure or release it on others to impress the boss. - Anuj Somany
endure all always - emily peltzer
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. - Jewish Proverb
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which "bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things," which "thinks no evil."
By trying, we can endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Dreams begin when you stop to pick up the penny - you realize the continual effort you must endure to have something worth obtaining. - Bernice Miller
I can conquer my fears.I can overcome my weaknesses.I can master my failures.I can survive my disappointments.I can beat my obstacles.I can endure my trials.I am strong.I am able.I am gifted.I am special.I am exceptional. - Matshona Dhiliwayo
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, I am suffering, than to say, This landscape is ugly. - Simone Weil
Do not quit, endure and find strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We encountered many hardships. With hope, we find the strength to endure. - Lailah Gifty Akita
She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.-Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. - Henry Ford
Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain. - John F. Kennedy
It is never easy to endure pain nor uncomfortable situation. It is seems easy to quit to avoid the pain.If you quit you will suffer later. It is far better to endure the pain now and enjoy later. Life is all about endurance. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Emotional pain is a terrible thing to endure, but the solution is not anything unbiblical. - Lois Mowday Rabey
o endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character. - Shannon L. Alder
But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions. - Vladimir Nabokov
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. - Neil Gaiman
True love come from God, accept the worse part of it, endure the pain,true love never fade. - Uche Daniel Oluwaseun
Life is a gift; value it.Life is a trial; endure it.Life is a journey; complete it.Life is a test; pass it.Life is a task; fulfill it.Life is an opportunity; use it.Life is a moment; enjoy it.Life is a mission; accomplish it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure. - Chekhov Anton
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity another man’s, I mean. - Mark Twain
Our identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core. - Afnan Ahmad Mia
You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable. - Donovan
The purpose of this glorious life is not simply to endure it, but to soar, stumble, and flourish as you learn to fall in love with existence. We were born to live, my dear, not to merely exist. - Becca Lee
My faith is stong enough to endure, kind enough to feel, big enough to accommodate. - Debasish Mridha
If you endure every struggle, you will find your potential strength. - Lailah Gifty Akita
God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able. - Martin Luther King Jr.
She had taken many more punches to both body and soul than anyone should ever have to endure. But she had been able to rebel every time. - Stieg Larsson
It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure. - Orrin Woodward
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. - Vince Lombardi
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. - Arthur Schopenhauer
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. - Alan Paton
A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. - Og Mandino
Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others. - Joseph B. Wirthlin
life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat. - Anaïs Nin
To achieve any success we have to endure some pain. - Debasish Mridha
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death. - Sigmund Freud
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
Being able to endure is sometimes the key to survival. - Eraldo Banovac
Your hardest time will be the most memorable time of your life if you can endure it. - Debasish Mridha
The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment. - Robert Henri
Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self. - Kafka, Franz
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
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. - Jean Rostand
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all. - Lisa Tawn Bergren
If you can endure anything, you can become anything. - Michael Bassey Johnson
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