Endurance Quotes

"I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows. Ch. 10 : The Scroll Marked III, p. 66."

"The more you know, the more you know you don't know."

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."

"He who is to be a good ruler must first have been ruled."

"Through discipline comes freedom."

"To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill."

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"The brave man is as unperturbed as a man can be; he will fear such things indeed, but he will stand his ground against them as he ought."

"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."

"No one feels fear who thinks that nothing can happen to him."

"Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."

"To perceive is to suffer."

"A man who is not a master of himself can never be a master of others."

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient."

"Nature does nothing in vain."

"The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends."

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Change in all things is sweet."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."

"Endurance consists in not being defeated, whereas continence consists in conquering."

"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

"The person who stands his ground against things that are painful and does not lose his head is a man of endurance."

"It is more difficult to endure pain than to abstain from pleasure."

"The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either."

"One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."

"Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids."

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."