Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
JOHN RUSKIN Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Endurance is patience concentrated.
THOMAS CARLYLE In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- John Ruskin,
JOHN RUSKIN Kindness, nobler ever than revenge
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,
JOHN RUSKIN A king's son is no nobler than his company.
SCOTTISH PROVERB A king's son is no nobler than his company.
GAELIC PROVERB A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.
LOUIS DEBONNAIRE “Being honest and truthful is far nobler than wearing a crown.”
~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
NICK LAMPSON Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.
JOHN RUSKIN Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
CAITLYN JENNER Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...
AMIT RAY All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my str...
MUHAMMAD ALI Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth
RUTH MCKENNEY Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do mor...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more ...
THOMAS CARLYLE Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more...
THOMAS CARLYLE Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.
LUDWIG VON MISES Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship
SAMUEL JOHNSON With God, there is no burden beyond the strength of endurance.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thou...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Strength is measured not always by reaching the top, but also endurance.
NISHAL MAHARAJ It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There's nothing I really could have lost endurance- and strength-wise.
ALEX WARREN And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us i...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.
SHANNON L. ALDER It is better not to have patience at all than to have short-term patience.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you s...
ZAINAB SALBI I am the bended, but not broken. I am the power of the thunderstorm. I am the beauty in the beast. I...
KIERRA C.T. BANKS Patience is all the strength that man needs.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA Better health is more important than beauty and with better health comes beauty.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Patience and time do more than force and rage.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Charm is more than beauty.
YIDDISH PROVERB Man is more noble dead than alive, because in returning to the earth he becomes earth, and nothing i...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN John Lennon, Jesus is bigger than The Beatles.
A.J. CHILSON Patience will achieve more than force.
EDMUND BURKE PAPER HAS MORE PATIENCE THAN PEOPLE.
ANNE FRANK 'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
DAVID BORENSTEIN It improves muscle strength and endurance levels, joint range of motion and flexibility, and balance...
CEDRIC BRYANT Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD BYRON To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.
MEYER LONDON Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are ei...
EDGAR RAMIREZ No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than
himself, dwells in the breast of man...
THOMAS CARLYLE Beauty is less important than quality.
EUGENE ORMANDY Because paper has more patience than people.
ANNE FRANK The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler ...
KEVIN PATTERSON The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler ...
KEVIN PATTERSON To have the power to forgive,
Is empire and prerogative,
And 'tis in crowns a nobler gem,
T...
SAMUEL BUTLER (POET) A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
DUTCH PROVERB A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains
DUTCH PROVERB Beauty is no more than self-esteem.
RANA AHMAD KHAN Strength is the vitality and virility of Wisdom. Beauty is the apparitional status of Wisdom. Wisdom...
AARON SANTOS Your inner obduracy strengthens the level of your endurance in life.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowe...
HENRY TUCKERMAN We look at a number of different fitness factors. We look at their muscular strength, their muscular...
JENNIFER PEHMOELLER Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON When promise and patience are wearing thin,
When endurance is almost driven in,
When our angel...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
XENOPHANES What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turn...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The inside world is greater than the outside world,that's why belief is greater than strength.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a check,
Richer than doing nothing for a robe,
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is not a tree in heaven higher than the tree of patience
IRISH SAYINGS If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that tr...
SHERI DEW Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
THOMAS HUXLEY What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremend...
WALT MOREY There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowe...
HENRY TUCKERMAN Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as...
RACHEL CARSON Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. ...
ALBERT PIKE Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. ...
ROSS PEROT A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man ...
GEORGE ORWELL A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man ...
GEORGE ORWELL Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays...
MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays,...
MADAME DE STAEL The heart’s will is greater than the hand’s strength.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Character is your beauty; style is your strength.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
IMMERMANN Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.
JOHN ZIMMERMAN Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...
HOMER With all the strength; Love encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, fa...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
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JOHN RUSKIN Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so...
JOHN RUSKIN In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for...
JOHN RUSKIN There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little ...
JOHN RUSKIN You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, w...
JOHN RUSKIN When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c...
JOHN RUSKIN