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

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

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.

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.

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.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

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.

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.