Bear Quotes

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Great, Hate

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

Mind, Important, Succeed

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

Success, Friend, Liberty

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Live, Why, Almost

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Law, Rights

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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Moliere

Best, Grow, Trees

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Mark Twain

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama

Work, Family, Health

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
William Shakespeare

Others, Fly, Tis

I bear a charmed life.
William Shakespeare

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin

Wife, Why, Fault

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The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage, Heart, Greatest

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur

Peace, War, Others

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Her, She

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot

Love, Jealousy, Anger

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

Great, Nation, Reap

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Ann Landers

Money, Job, Maturity

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Marcus Aurelius

Good, Future, Remember

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Friendship, Truth

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius

Nature, Nothing, Happens

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Victor Hugo

God, Sorrow, Weak

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. Eliot

Reality, Cannot, Humankind

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Father, May, Him

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King

Great, Hate, Burden

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Munshi Premchand

Beauty, Weight, Softness

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Stephen King

Life, Beauty, Children

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
H. L. Mencken

Justice, Easy, Injustice

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
Meister Eckhart

Yourself, Heart, Human

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce

Failure, Person, Makes

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Dag Hammarskjold

Loneliness, Makes, Share

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