Quotes About Endurance

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

Marriage is supposed to be permanent. It's like a tattoo that yells at you.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

I have a thing for things that last.

When unfailing love comes to fail, It will fail forever.

There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.

If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season.

A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.