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Quotes About Endurance

Beyond mountains there are mountains." - Haitian proverb
~ Tracy Kidder
We can handle it.
~ Troy Denning
All we can hope for is that, whatever the outcome, the people we care about survive and escape." - Dannyl
~ Trudi Canavan
Your fancy book learnin' should've thaught you that the strong do what they want and the weak endure what they must. Now bring me your finest meats and cheeses and be quick about it!
~ Tucker Max
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty." —Theodore Roosevelt
~ Tucker Max
It was so bad I had to hit myself in the hand with a tack hammer to take my mind off the pain it caused me
~ Tucker Max
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
~ Tupac Shakur
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.
~ Tupac Shakur
If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.
~ Tupac Shakur
I would not have the anniversaries of our victories celebrated, nor those of our defeats made fast days and spent in humiliation and prayer; but I would like to see truthful history written. Such history will do full credit to the courage, endurance and soldierly ability of the American citizen, no matter what section of the country he hailed from, or in what ranks he fought. The justice of the cause which in the end prevailed, will, I doubt not, come
~ Ulysses S. Grant
For my own part, I think that Johnston's tactics were right. Anything that could have prolonged the war a year beyond the time that it did finally close, would probably have exhausted the North to such an extent that they might then have abandoned the contest and agreed to a separation.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
~ Umberto Eco
He learned that love is not all pleasure, but can be agony and heartache, martyrdom and sacrifice. He learned what the clergyman was talking about in the marriage service: for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part.
~ Upton Sinclair
The two of them heartened each other, making bovine life a bit more tolerable.
~ Upton Sinclair
They had opened their hearts, like flowers to the springtime, and the merciless winter had fallen upon them. They wondered if ever any love that had blossomed had been so crushed and trampled!
~ Upton Sinclair
I counted the days. I marked them off on the wall with a piece of coal.
~ Uri Orlev
una gota de agua no perfora la piedra por la fuerza, sino por repetición»).
~ Vaclav Smil
Val McDermid
~ sempiternal
Byerozkin knew very well that the man with no quiet at the bottom of his soul was unable to endure for long, however courageous he might be in combat. He thought of fear or cowardice, on the other hand, as something temporary, something that could be cured as easily as a cold.
~ Vasily Grossman
L'anima passa attraverso mille tormenti, costruisce per anni, a volte per decenni, pietra dopo pietra, il suo tumulo, prima di arrivare ad ammettere una perdita eterna, prima di rassegnarsi all'evidenza.
~ Vasily Grossman
My grandmother and all those other elders from the past kept themselves busy until they could no longer move or until they died.
~ Velma Wallis
But for endurance athletes, doing so is a little different because macronutrient balance also has a major impact on training performance and many athletes do not consume enough carbohydrate in particular to maximize that performance. Any measure that boosts your training performance will also tend to make you leaner.
~ Velopress
While it pays to be light and lean in all endurance sports, there is thankfully no single, ideal body type for any specific endurance sport. The variety you see in the physiques of world-class cyclists, runners, and other endurance athletes can be surprising.
~ Velopress
For many, the road to becoming an endurance athlete began with a diet. Maybe this is your story. The guy who once had regularly ordered the bacon burger was suddenly rolling out special requests at a restaurant—keep the toast dry, hold the dressing, boil the egg, steam the vegetables. For most successful athletes, somewhere along the way a new lifestyle emerged and the focus shifted from dieting to performance. Performance
~ Velopress