Julius Caesar Quotes

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.

If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

What is to give light must endure burning.

To the stars through thorns.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.

They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.