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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Endurance'

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Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
William Barclay, Scottish Theologian (1907-1978)
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
Chester Irving Barnard, American Businessman
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
Djuna Barnes, American Novelist (1892-1982)
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Theodore Bikel, Austrian Actor (1924-  )
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader (1769-1821)
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Lord Byron, British Poet (1788-1824)
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher (1795-1881)
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher (1795-1881)
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin, American Clergyman
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist (1857-1924)
I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.
Tom Cruise, American Actor (1962-  )
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens, English Novelist (1812-1870)
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass, American Author (1817-1895)
I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner, American Novelist (1897-1962)
Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Morgan Freeman, American Actor (1937-  )
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
James Anthony Froude, English Historian (1818-1894)
In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.
Mary Garden, -
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock, English Director (1899-1980)
You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
Janet Jackson, American Musician (1966-  )
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
George F. Kennan, American Historian (1904-2005)
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