Haruki Murakami Quotes

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

Patience is moral elasticity.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

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

You have to be tough.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Men can bear all things but good days.