Endurance Quotes

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

~ Haruki Murakami

At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

~ Tabitha Suzuma

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

~ Bell Hooks

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

~ Matthew Quick

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

~ Stephen Fry

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

~ Charlotte Brontë

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

~ John F. Kennedy

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.

~ Sheri Dew

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.

~ Greg Kincaid

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities. The theologians, taking one with another, are adept logicians, but every now and then they have to resort to sophistries so obvious that their whole case takes on an air of the ridiculous. Even the most logical religion starts out with patently false assumptions. It is often argued in support of this or that one that men are so devoted to it that they are willing to die for it. That, of course, is as silly as the Santa Claus proof. Other men are just as devoted to manifestly false religions, and just as willing to die for them. Every theologian spends a large part of his time and energy trying to prove that religions for which multitudes of honest men have fought and died are false, wicked, and against God.

~ H.l. Mencken

Don't fear the gods,Don't worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy to endure.

~ Epicurus

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

~ David Hume

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

~ Criss Jami

Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting,the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind,when my wings arefeeling heavy &i've forgottenhow tofly.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Some teach youwhat can't be taught,by turning their backon you & helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping into your wildest dreams of self love.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

‪A wise man once said, 'Life is like breathing. If you try to hold it, you'll lose it. But let it come & go & you'll always be connected to it.'‬

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that i too can defy gravity.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

I see prisoners; those whose minds have been caged by people's ideologies of how they should liveInternally displaced persons who have settled for a lot in life that isn't there'sTell me, how powerful is this fear that you surrender even before the war has beganHow minute is this belief in yourself that you look in the mirror and dare to tell the person on the other side you won't amount to anything?Shame!Set yourself free; rise above your fears and fight. Look in that mirror and declare woe unto those who venture to stand in your way. this is your life, yours alone, use it wisely

~ Evy Michaels

There is joy in every circumstance.

~ Wisdom Kwashie Mensah (Wkm)

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

~ Suzy Kassem

So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope.

~ Thomas Dutton

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

~ Christine De Pizan

Hope is victory in any hardship.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

...heroes are sometimes the most ordinary -seeming people. It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take the harder road, walk forth bravely under the indifferent stars. We can hazard the ravages of chance. We can choose to endure what seems unendurable, and thereby open up the possibility of prevailing. We can awaken to the world as it is, and seeing it with eyes wide open, we can nevertheless embrace hope rather than despair.

~ Daniel James Brown

With the spirit of endurance, we shall strive in any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Stay hungry on the path you trod to overcome all odds though fate & the gods seem to pepper your plate with a barrage of sabotage.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

There is never a guarantee of survival, no matter your strength or skill or wit. There is only the day you are conceived and the day you die, and all else is a series of moments you either embrace or endure.

~ Rachel L. Schade

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?

~ Rachel L. Schade

Greatness is not a term of success, but of endurance.

~ Robert Vanleeuwen

When the well's nearly dry and you're not sure you have the strength to persevere, fill up on love and friendship, then take another step, and then another, until you reach your goal.

~ Liza M. Wiemer

You were built for this moment.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives.

~ Christine De Pizan