Quotes About Endurance

When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Don't disparage the day that still has an hour of light in its hand.

Nothing is falling apart

the words of encouragement which the bedbug was said to have spoken to her children when hot water was poured on them all. She told them not to lose heart because whatever was hot must in the end turn cold.

Puisque j'ai survécu à cette année-là, disait-il toujours, je survivrai à n'importe quoi.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

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Time is not your enemy, forever is.

Endure. In enduring, grow strong.

For proof, I present Tom Amberry, a retired podiatrist who lives in Southern California. In 1993, at the age of 71, Amberry set a Guinness World Record by sinking 2,750 consecutive free throws. That is not a typo

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Tsunamis. School shootings. Syria. We watch it, we read about it, and then we move on. As a species, we're either very resilient or super callous. I don't know which.

Remember, aerobic exercise saves your life; strength training makes it worth living.

Warm up, of course; that never changes. Then up to 60–65 percent of your max for five or ten minutes. Then crank it up to 70–75 percent and hold at that level for five or ten minutes. Feel your way. That's intense enough for your high-endurance work in the early stages and maybe forever. Then back down for recovery at 60–65 percent.

Aerobic exercise is primarily about your muscles' ability to endure. Strength training is primarily about your muscles' ability to deliver power, which, surprisingly, has as much to do with a special form of neural coordination as actual strength. That's a critical point. Strength training causes muscle growth, and that's important, but it's the hidden increase in coordination that changes your physical life. This is not eye-hand coordination;

the struggle of our lives was not a sign that there was still life. If you stopped struggling, that's when you needed to be worried. The fight meant that God was helping you keep going one more day even if you didn't thik you coould make it.

Nobody knows that but you and God. And you don't even know the half of it. You see, he looks at our lives as a whole, not just today, tomorrow, yesterday, and next week. Not even this year and next. He's not counting your failures and your mistakes and keeping a running tab like heaven's waiter. He sees the end just as well as the beginning. He knows about the pit you're in right now.

It's not faith to say that when something painful happens, when you lose and lose again and the hurt goes so deep that you don't think you can take another breath, it's all going to work out for good. Faith doesn't explain. It doesn't even need to know or expect a happy ending. That's not what we're promised. Faith is abandoning illusions. It rests in something bigger, something beyond us and our ability. And I suspect you know that now.

every day was bad news and worse than the one before it, and that was all you could expect from life.

It's okay to fail, it's not okay to quit.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.

Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.

It doesn't matter what you do for 45 minutes, it's what you do the last three minutes.