Quotes About Endurance

It's not so bad when you get used to it," said Doc. "I've been drinking it for seventeen years.

Sadness and death, she thought, and death and sadness, and it wrenched in her stomach against the soreness. You just have to wait around long enough and it will come.

an' a man, strong an' healthy, ain't never no burden.

Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkest. 'Thou mayest, thou mayest!' What glory! It is true that we are weak and sick and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.

Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.

We wake at different times, and the gallantest flowers are those that bloom in the cold.

Live. Live, brothers, though there be naught but shame and failure to furnish forth your living.

Men are absolutely shits, but we get them in the end because we can suffer better. A woman can outsuffer a man every time.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. -John wooden

If any one premise typifies my teams in all the years I've coached, it is this concept. Often as a player, I'd tell myself, I may play someone better than I am, but I'll never run against one who is going to be in better condition And I never played against a man in my life I felt was in better shape, and Lambert often cited me as an example of top conditioning.

Ninety percent of the time, the game is going to be decided in the final five minutes. When two teams are evenly matched, the better conditioned team will usually execute better when fatigue set sin, and will probably win.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur... Don't look for the quick, big improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens- and when it happens, it lasts.

If you prepare properly, you may be outscored but you will never lose.

Remember That Success Can Take Months—or Years—to Achieve but Can Be Undone in Minutes.

Each day my mother demonstrated great patience and the ability and eagerness to work very hard without complaint

principle, per-sis tence, and compassion—three

Patience is the ability to wait and calmly preserve. We all grow impatient, but some people have more trouble waiting than others do. We tend to forget that all good things take time.

And I'd be dead , but by God's grace Drive on, don't mean nothin' My children love me, but they don't understand And I got a woman who knows her man Drive on, don't mean nothin', drive on

The situation is unendurable, and yet he endures.

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

Courage is making an unpopular decision and suffering through temporary discomfort because you know it will have the best long-term results.

Hope – or perhaps delusion – was a flame that had stayed lit, even though its scorching light would hurt. It had refused to go out.

Your trials last as long as your disobedience.