Quotes About Endurance

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike.

You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.

I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

Down Where I Am Too many years Beatin' at the door-- I done beat my Both fists sore. Too many years Tryin' to get up there-- Done broke my ankles down, Got nowhere. Too many years Climbin' that hill, 'Bout out of breath. I got my fill. I'm gonna plant my feet On solid ground. If you want to see me, Come down.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

Being told that love is forbidden does not kill love. It strengthens it.

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then.

We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain," said Matthew. "It comes when it comes, and we try to remember, even though we cannot imagine a day when it will release its hold on us, that all pain fades. All misery passes. Humanity is drawn to light, not darkness.

Hope is all that keeps us going sometimes, biscuit

Take my hands," Alec said. "And take my strength too. Whatever of it you can use to— to keep yourself going.

Some lights were never meant to burn for long.

As long as you exist and I exist, I will love you.

But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary with a yawn. Despite the story's content, the rhythm of Jace's voice had made her sleepy. "Or you'll break." "Not if you're strong enough," said Jace firmly.

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

Grief can be so bad you can't breathe, but that's what it means to be human. We lose, we suffer, but we have to keep breathing.

People are only invincible in books," said Cordelia. "I think you will find most of the time, not even then," said Tessa. "But at least we can always pick up a book and read it anew. Stories offer a thousand fresh starts.