Quotes About Endurance

Anyone can start something; very few people can finish.

You don't have to love it. You just have to believe it's worth it in the end.

When you use your body for a living, you have one job and it requires one thing: work hard to stay in peak condition. That's it.

In real life, being relentless is a state of mind that can give you the strength to achieve, to survive, to overcome, to be strong when others are not. It means craving the end result so intensely that the work becomes irrelevant. Not just in sports, but in everything you do. The ability to be relentless is in all of us.

Bottom line if you want success of any kind: you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable.

When you're tired, sore, and can't do more, that's the time to do more

Benjamin Franklin said, "Energy and persistence conquer all things."79

meaning is one of our greatest needs, and when it's fulfilled, we can endure any type of suffering with dignity.

When your faith is strong, you've got an extra tank of rocket fuel for those times when the road is long and there are no refill stations in sight.

But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. 2 Chronicles 15:7

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

There's no room inside for feeling any worse

She thought little of her ordeal. Cruelty was part of nature, like a winter frost; something to be survived and then forgotten (p.689)

We don't need guns. We just have to be patient. And wait for your hearts to stop beating. And stop they will. And for some of you, real damned soon, truth be told.

That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live - lives.

waiting on line

Timothy Egan

to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

ground. In 1917, about forty-five

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

My maxim comes from Samuel Beckett, a personal hero of mine: 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.