Quotes About Endurance

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

From the outside, this runner's world looks unnatural. The body punished, the appetites denied, the satisfactions delayed, the motivations that drive most men ignored. The truth is that the runner is not made for the things and people and institutions that surround him. To use Aldous Huxley's expression, his small guts and feeble muscles do not permit him to eat or fight his way through the ordinary rough-and-tumble. That

With the publication of Running & Being in 1978, George Sheehan's voice became the voice of a movement, sounding a clarion call to hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their sedentary ways, take to the streets, and run. Today, there are millions of us lacing up our running shoes, training for 5-Ks, 10-Ks, half-marathons, and marathons—each trudging the same path of fitness and self-discovery that he blazed decades before.

Aging is a myth, he argued, and he showed it by posting his personal best at 3:01 in his 61st year.

One thing we runners know. There is no substitute for running. No matter what age we are. No matter what time we do it.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

It's been a long hard ride. See you on the other side

On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died

Never tire, never falter, and never fail.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

Lost causes may be the best causes—they usually are—but once lost they are never won.

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.

All the beatings she had suffered had not subjugated her, only taught her prudence and a calm and sly scorn for men's anger.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.