Definition of Endurance

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Endurance

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.

The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.

Related Definitions:

Act, Bearing, Being, Continuance, Continuing, Distress, Duration, Lasting, Of, Or, Overcome, Pain, Patience, Quality, Resistance, State, Sufferance, Suffering, The, Under, Without

Endurance Quotations

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Lord Byron

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
Denis Waitley

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Virgil

Endurance Translations

endurance in French is endurance
endurance in German is Dauer, Geduld {f}
endurance in Italian is indulgenza, perseveranza
endurance in Latin is patientia
endurance in Norwegian is utholdenhet
endurance in Spanish is constancia

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