Quotes About Endurance

suggesting that, though their situation might be strange , there was nothing new about suffering .

nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.

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The game is never over; there's no finish line this side of heat death.

The abyss is a desert; no one can afford the luxury of waiting for better odds.

The water's too deep to stand in now— ...feebly treading water although her limbs must be frozen almost to paralysis. It's a pointless effort, a brainstem effort; last duties discharged, last options exhausted, still the body grabs for those last few seconds, brief suffering still somehow better than endless nonexistence.

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

Scottish writer George MacDonald once said, "No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourself so.

Fall down seven times. Stand up eight. JAPANESE PROVERB

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

FOR THE SHORTEST month, drab February can last for ever.

Get knocked down seven times. Get up eight times. —JAPANESE PROVERB

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

Worry is like a kettle full of water, it felt as if my mind was on the boil at a ferocious intensity with no opportunity to let off steam. There is nothing you can do but get through it as best you can.

Legacies are hard to come by, after all. And if you have one going, you ought to do what you can to keep it alive.

Emily and Fanny are doing their best to remain poker-stiff, firmly staring in their upright palanquins. But two hours on an elephant is as much as either of them can stand, and—after four times as long as that—they pine, they simply ache for the opportunity to complain, even more than the chance to rest.

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

Purgatory is hell with hope.

Marketing is a race without a finishing line

In times when nothing stood / but worsened, or grew strange / there was one constant good: / she did not change.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Initially, exercising at this relatively low heart rate may be difficult for some people. But after a short time, you will feel better and your pace will quicken at that same heart rate, so you will not be exercising at that relatively slow pace for too long. In other words, you will walk, run, bike and perform all activities at faster paces. This increase in pace (or power) at the same MAF HR is also an important evaluation, called the MAF Test, that measures this progress.