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Thursday, 7 August 2008
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"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in." (Rogers, Will - Experts)

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Browse Quotations about Endurance

An arch never sleeps.
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.
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.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.
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.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
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.
Something that irritates you and won't let you go. That's the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Those who can bear all can dare all.
Those who endure conquer.
To bear is to conquer our fate.
What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

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