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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

Sacrifice

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Frederick Douglass

Endurance

Limits

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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.

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.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Thomas Carlyle

Endurance

Patience

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.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Lord Byron

Endurance

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

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.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Djuna Barnes

Time