Endure Quotes

• Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Technology
  • Ability
  • Facts

• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Suffering

• Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Values
  • Principles
  • Permanent

• What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Strive
  • Endure

• Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Choices
  • Events
  • Horrible

• To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Pain
  • Living
  • Endure

• You have to figure out a way to endure that little bit of time with the media. Any question they ask you; beautiful thing is, you get the last word. You can spin it any way you want to…If you can go third person on yourself, you can sit down and have a 10-15 minute conversation.

  

  Warren Sapp
  • Beautiful
  • Conversation
  • Figures

• We believe one magnificent highway of this kind the Lincoln Highway, in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will not only be a credit to the American people but that will also mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.

  

  Carl G. Fisher
  • People
  • Kind
  • Mean

• Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Action
  • Hell
  • Endure

• 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
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Amazed

• Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Men
  • Independent
  • Arrogance

• It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Waiting
  • Easy
  • Despair

• Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Lucky
  • Endure
  • Survivor

• I know it is possible not only to restore trust but to actually enhance it. The difficult things that we got through with the important people in our lives can become fertile ground for the growth of enduring trust - trust that is actually stronger because it's been tested and proved through challenge.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Growth
  • Difficult

• No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Ideas
  • Sacrifice
  • Succeed

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