Quotes About Endurance

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

At times there is a crushing before a crowning.

Persecution is designed to make you run away from the Word (Matthew 13:21).

grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

Grace for the race is grace for your mission.

He conquers who endures.

Sometimes the only way out is through.

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.

I urged myself to live in a state of complete consciousness, even when that meant pain or boredom." - Pete Hamill.

How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on.

Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

Mind is everything; muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind." So said Paavo Nurmi, the Finn who won nine Olympic gold medals at distances from 1,500 meters to 10,000 meters.

Pete Pfitzinger

there are four recovery days that week, along with a lactate-threshold session, a long run, and a medium-long run. Looking at the row for Sunday, it's easy to see how the long runs progress and then taper in the last few weeks before the marathon.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

It is the kind of stoicism which had been seen as characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry, perhaps nowhere better expressed than in 'The Battle of Maldon' where the most famous Saxon or English cry has been rendered - 'Courage must be the firmer, heart the bolder, spirit must be the greater, as our strength grows less'. That combination of bravery and fatalism, endurance and understatement, is the defining mood of Arhurian legend.

2 Timothy 47.

I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn't get any worse.

Isn't that what people say: it is better this way? Meaning I cannot bear it but I will. I will close my eyes and stumble forward into the darkness.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid, epigram in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretches of terrible time. It is hard to believe you can feel so bad and still not die.

Strength Doesn't Come From What You Can Do. Strength Comes From Overcoming The Things You Once Thought You Couldn't.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. —Bob Marley