Endurance Quote by George F. Kennan Download Open image “Heroism is endurance for one moment more.” — George F. Kennan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Endurance Hero Heroism Inequality Moments Patience Time
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think heroism is when somebody really goes above and beyond the call of duty and does something outstanding for either themselves or somebody… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“In the face of this situation we would be better off to dispense now with a number of the concepts which have underlined our… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
“If you accept a democratic system, this means that you are prepared to put up with those of its workings, legislative or administrative, with… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance. — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness,… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
“I met Suffering on a quiet road, just as the sun was setting behind me. Its presence was heavy, like an old coat I… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main thing about an endurance challenge is that you have to endure. Not so much physically, but mentally. Your mind gives up first.… — Milind Soman Copy Share Image
