Quotes About Endurance

Successful athletes know the power of having a strong core, no matter what the sport.

I'm always amazed how overnight successes take a helluva long time.

Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.

As we see, the priority stays with creatively changing the situation that causes us to suffer. But the superiority goes to the "know-how to suffer," if need be.

the most painful part of the beatings is the insult which they imply.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

He who despairs is wrong.

There are things stronger than the strongest man...

where there is no more hope, song remains.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Press on! A better fate awaits thee.

Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.

Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. Les Miserables, page 674

Los que padecéis porque amáis, amad más aún. Morir de amor es vivir

Red, for the blood of angry men, black, for the night that will finally end.

All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that is soaked.

Running beer gathers no foam.

Thus those two beings, so exclusively and touchingly devoted, who had lived so long for each other alone, came to suffer side by side, each through the other, without ever speaking of the matter, without reproaches, each wearing a smile.

With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force the captain to show himself.

what can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.

People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.