Endures Quotes

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Washington Irving

Love, Mother, Father

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, Pain, Knows

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

God, Food, Soul

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley

Character, Fame, Accident

No violent extreme endures.
Thomas Carlyle

Extreme, Violent

Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman

Nothing, Personal, Qualities

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Edward Kennedy

Dreams, Work, Hope

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Helen Rowland

Kiss, Rest, Second

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nature, After, Present

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus

Change, Nothing

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
Todd Rundgren

Sense, Tell, Everyone

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Zora Neale Hurston

Courage, Laughter, Black

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
J. G. Holland

Time, Fast, Slow

A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Franz Schubert

Misfortune, Complaint

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?
Tony Campolo

Religion, Time, God

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Long, Country, Pride

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes

Future, Alone, Mind

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson

Important, Manner, Endured

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
J. G. Holland

Time, Road, Fast

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.
Eric Alterman

Nothing, Matter, Criticism

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson

Father, Important, Learned

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
Robert Musil

Time, Ability, Impression

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
O. J. Simpson

Money, Character, Takes

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
Robert Caro

Seems, Create, City

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
Robert Caro

Book, Sometimes, Timeless

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.
Fred Upton

Time, Power, Nation

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
Anthony Kennedy

Freedom, Generation, Greater

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
Sun Ra

Him, Brother, Tragedy

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.
Jon Heder

Good, Cool, Mean

In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really impressed by characters who can endure over time, whether that be a long series run like a Harry Bosch, or a character who endures over generations and continues to please readers: Sherlock Holmes.
Michael Koryta

Time, Character, Long

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Marcus Aurelius

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us