Endurance Quotes
- Feb 23, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 13, 2025
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Virgil
He that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 10:22
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
James 5:11
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle
Endurance is nobler than strength.
John Ruskin
What can’t be cured must be endured.
English Proverb
Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.
Angela Duckworth
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
James 1:12
Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which keeps a man on his feet with his face to the wind. It is the virtue which can transmute the hardest trial into glory because beyond the pain it sees the goal.
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson
He that endures is not overcome.
George Herbert
He conquers who endures.
Persius
Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.
Thomas Fuller
What cannot be cured must be endured.
François Rabelais
By endurance we conquer.
Ernest Shackleton
Hope is patient endurance.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Great endurance, great strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.
Bear Grylls
Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.
Zig Ziglar
Fortitude...means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
Hilary Mantel
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
William James
Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.
Theodore Roosevelt
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
John Lubbock
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
Albert Einstein
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Virgil
Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.
Rodney A Winters
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman
Those who endure, conquer.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Friedrich Schiller
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
George F Kennan
Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it’s the one they will most need to know.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
Corrie ten Boom
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.
Henry Ford
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
William Barclay
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Not in the achievement, but in the endurance of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin