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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

2025

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