CURATED COLLECTION

Finding the Strength to Endure

Endurance is quiet — it doesn't announce itself, it just keeps going when everything says stop.

43 quotes found

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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

—Rosa ParksActivist

Post-War ERA • North America

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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I never ran my train off the track.

—Harriet TubmanAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

—Mahatma GandhiLawyer

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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It is in the nature of a king to be attacked. But it is in the nature of the lion to endure.

—Sundiata KeitaKing

Medieval ERA • West Africa

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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

—Ousmane SembèneNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.

—Simone de BeauvoirExistentialist Philosopher & Feminist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

—Paulo CoelhoNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

—Marie CuriePhysicist & Chemist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

—ConfuciusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Patience obtains all things.

—Teresa of ÁvilaMystic & Reformer

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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Hope, she said, is a discipline.

—Claudia RankinePoet & Essayist

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

—OvidPoet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

—Nelson MandelaAnti-Apartheid Activist & President

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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It is not that I'm so brave, it is just that I'm too stubborn to quit.

—SenecaPhilosopher, Statesman & Playwright

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

—Virginia WoolfModernist Novelist & Essayist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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The path to enlightenment is long and arduous, yet deeply rewarding.

—XuanzangScholar

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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There are no virtues without sacrifices, no merits without struggles.

—Suzanne NeckerWriter, Reformer & Revolutionary

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the decision that something else is more important.

—Maaza MengisteNovelist, Essayist & King

Digital Age ERA • East Africa

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I don't think about failure. I think about what I need to do next to succeed.

—Naomi CampbellAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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