Quotes About Endurance

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. And yet, as we said, Hope is but deferred; not abolished, not abolishable.

It is singular how long the rotten will hold together, provided you do not handle it roughly.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

The best of men That e'er wore earth about Him was a Sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; The first true gentleman that ever breathed.

You have to really want to be a Navy SEAL. The passion you need to endure the rigors of training, to become the best of the best... It's admirable.

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

I've had malaria damn near eight times.

I know it's near the end and when it's over I want to be able to say to myself - not anyone else - that I've given it everything. At least in the last part of my career.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that?

Everything Maradona did, he did with a guy hanging on his neck during 90 minutes.

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Besides being good for our body, running helps us to focus and throw away negative energy.

How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.

Before anyone else, women need to accept that neither does life stop, nor does it change for those few days in a month.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.