“An arch never sleeps.”
“Those who endure conquer.”
Qui patitur vincit
“To bear is to conquer our fate.”
“Prolonged endurance tames the bold.”
“Those who can bear all can dare all.”
“What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.”
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”
“Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.”
“Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.”
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
“Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.”
“The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.”
“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
“People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.”
“People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.”
“It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.”
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”
“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.”
“Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.”
“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.”
“Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.”
“Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.”