More from Friedrich Schiller
A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller O’er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller The universe is a thought of God.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Sorrow is brief but joy is endless.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller
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More on endurance
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
OvidOvid Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
Joseph HellerJoseph Heller Conquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.
J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. Tolkien The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand RussellBertrand Russell The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgot.
Neil GaimanNeil Gaiman