A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Though sporting a hideous mustache is in no way comparable to the physical pain and mental suffering men with these diseases endure, Movember still forces participants to challenge their manhood on a daily basis. Growing a moustache for men's cancer isn't as feel-good an activity as running a marathon for a cure.
Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!
Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
My family was very notorious in the town that we lived in. Everyone would say, 'There goes those damn Sams.' I didn't want to paint that ill picture of me. I knew the good in my family. They didn't know our background and the adversity we had to endure. I wanted to succeed and be a beacon of hope in my family.
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
But I think it's important that things endure.
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.