"Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled."

Harry Emerson Fosdick, American Clergyman

Life,

46

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled."

Exlpore more Life quotes

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Personal Development

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Life, Love, Purpose, Desire

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Life, Thought, End, Emotion

"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Life, End, Meaning, Measure

"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Life, Man, Taste

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Life, Goal, Artist, Mind

"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

Life, Despair, Salvation, Worth

"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Creation, Truth, Wisdom

"To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth, Power

"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Faith, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick

"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."

Work, Rest

"Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled."

Life,

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

People,

"He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end."

Beginning, End, Road

"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us."

Life, Environment, Heredity

"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."

Friendship, Men, Discipline, Results

"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

World,

"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."

War, Consequences, Hate, Lies

"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality."

God, Limits, Mortality, Possibilities

"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

Life, Power, Light, Niagara