Quotes About Endurance

Stay alive so you can tell.

Je me souviendrai qu'elle m'a écrit par sms, vers la fin : J'ai travaillé. J'ai traduit ce qui meurt en ce qui dure. (Préface de Mathieu Terence, p. 8)

Being able to say "I'll try again" is one of the deepest expressions of faith in oneself. When

One step at a time . . . one day at a time. Just today—just this day to get through

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut Rochester, New York 2010

To young people, I would like to say: Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.

Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.

This lack of self-control I fear is never ending

Forfeit the game Before somebody else Takes you out of the frame And puts your name to shame Cover up your face You can't run the race The pace is too fast You just won't last

There's more to life than just surviving ... but ... sometimes just surviving is all you get.

There were of course exceptions, but on the whole the "intellectuals" among us withstood the hardships of the journey resignedly and patiently. They proved to be tougher, quieter, more uncomplaining than many men from other walks of life who were physically stronger and physically better trained.

They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only... now... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.

Fear is an isometric exercise

A obstinação pura e simples é mais durável que a coragem, embora não seja tão

I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they are lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment, it's dull and hard as in effortful but not as in difficult to master. It's repetitive. It does not open the floodgates of revelation, as I am you've been led to expect.

I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they're lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment

How much kinder it would have been, to turn off, like an appliance. The gradual, drawn-out corruption of the body while its host was still trapped inside was a torture of a sort they would have contrived at Guantanamo, or Bergen-Belsen. Every old age was an Edgar Allan Poe story.

did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they're lying. The only good part is having run.

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

Lisa Ann Sandell

No way through but through...Do the next thing, Gabriella, and then the next, and then the next.

The show must go on, even when it's not the show you expected to be in.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

Survivors make it because they learn to adapt. Adaptation is coping. Coping is strength.