Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because its the one they will most need to know. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Those who can bear all can dare all. – Marquis De Vauvenargues

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. – Sir Philip Sidney