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Quotes About Endurance

How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line.
~ Dean Karnazes
Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.
~ Dean Karnazes
The human body has limitations; the human spirit is boundless.
~ Dean Karnazes
I wasn't born with any innate talent. I've never been naturally gifted at anything. I always had to work at it. The only way I knew how to succeed was to try harder than anyone else. Dogged persistence is what got me through life. But here was something I was half-decent at. Being able to run great distances was the one thing I could offer the world. Others might be faster, but I could go longer. My strongest quality is that I never give up.
~ Dean Karnazes
Want a strong, solid relationship that is willing to go the distance? Get to know your running shoes.
~ Dean Karnazes
Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity...
~ Dean Karnazes
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is the one who endures that the final victory comes.
~ Dean Karnazes
When we pass them, show no signs of weakness. Look strong.
~ Dean Karnazes
As a runner, that's what I know how to do. To strike out on a trail and just go and go and go like there's no tomorrow; to run until my problems fade beneath my feet and the world becomes new again.
~ Dean Karnazes
For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
~ Dean Koontz
A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.
~ Dean Koontz
Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.
~ Dean Koontz
It's only life. We all get through it.
~ Dean Koontz
After a silence, because he knew me well, he said, Not all wounds are the bleeding kind.
~ Dean Koontz
We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.
~ Dean Koontz
One can either despair and perish or be cheerful and persevere.
~ Dean Koontz
In the belly of Leviathan, Mr Thomas, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
~ Dean Koontz
Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.
~ Dean Koontz
Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.
~ Dean Koontz
Cuando has sufrido mucho en la vida, cada dolor adicional es tan tolerable como insignificante.
~ Yann Martel
Când ai suferit foarte mult în via??, fiecare durere în plus poate fi atât neînsemnat?, cât ÅŸi de nesuportat
~ Yann Martel
Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others--and I am one of those--never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life hungry stupidity.
~ Unknown
To live is to build a ship and a harbor at the same time. And to complete the harbor long after the ship was drowned.
~ Yehuda Amichai
It ain't over 'til it's over.
~ Yogi Berra