Quotes About Endurance

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

The more you frame the marathon as a stressful experience, the more negative messages you'll receive. But it's just as easy to frame it as a positively challenging journey.

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

Experience is the extract of suffering.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

Even when our Life is Full of Problems there will always be a Little bit sunshine of Happiness.

A secret life taught me: it doesn't get easier, you become stronger.

Resistance carves you into strength.

When you hit failure your workout has just begun.