Quotes About Endurance

It wasn't easy to act when dressed in the heavy ice hockey uniform - it was exhausting.

We don't need flashy cars, impressive titles, uniforms, or other status symbols. We rely on our strength and our will!

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

Manchester United have always stood up again and bounced back; it's just in the DNA.

I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women.

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted.

About the 50th hour, I was going to start thinking about the edge of the universe. Is there an edge? Is this an envelope we're living inside of, or no, does it go onto infinity in both time and space? And there's nothing like swimming for 50 hours in the ocean that gets you thinking about things like this.

Maybe the universe will get tired of me.

The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

Power is nothing without a rock solid core. Pilates is the key to activating it...guys don't be fooled just 'cause women do it. It's no joke. Try it and you'll find out real quick.

It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

Would you stop hoping? Hope is just postponed disappointment.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.