Quotes About Endurance

From the start, they had known that the odds of their survival were long. They might get inside the plant and complete their mission, but getting out and away would be another

Dressed for the minus-thirty-degree temperatures at high altitude (wool underwear, two pairs of wool socks, a wool sweater, a brown leather jacket lined with sheep's wool, and heavy trousers), Roane crossed the cold, fog-ridden airfield and gathered with the other pilots and aircrews in the huge Nissen hut used for briefings.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

Again, keep everything.

wild patience has taken me this far

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." Hardship is what makes the story of our lives more compelling in the telling. The

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

The only reason I am alive is because I could not die.

Neil S. Plakcy

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

Rock and Roll can never die.

It's hard enough losing with out the confusion of knowing I tried.

I'd rather burn out than rust.

The next best thing to winning is losing At least you've been in the race.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

Quitting is leading too.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest. From a letter to Winnie Mandela,

Don't Judge a person by his success stories, but only with how many times the person stood up, after falling down.