Quotes About Endurance

You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we survived slavery - and we can't pass a test? ... And you're gonna tell me we can't learn how to write? Have you lost your mind? We are survivors. That's all we do is survive.

There are no survivors in my fights.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?

I know many actresses who started big but were sent packing, as they couldn't sustain the momentum. I am in this for the long haul.

A lot of times in America, we work on bully muscles. We want the big muscles and the stuff that looks good. But we don't focus on the little things. But that's the stuff that sustains you and keeps you strong.

What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.

It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.

I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.

It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more - I salute you. But it's just as hard to admit something isn't working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.

Our challenge isn't that we can't be motivated. It's not that we aren't smart, excitable, or that we lack passion - what we don't have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.

Our people's faith is strong and sustains them even in times of challenge.

For me, it's not about quick grabs and quick sales; it's about having a sound that will last and sustain.

It's easy to fall in love, but it's a lot harder to sustain love.

If you have good gear and shoes, you can go for long runs and sustain yourself for a longer duration.

You can't do everything I did for all those years and not sustain some injuries.

To achieve something I don't think is a big thing but to maintain and sustain it, is an art. This is something few people possess while others don't.

You've got to sustain drives in this league.

Being able to sustain a certain level of play is important for individuals and teams.

We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with the very real question of whether we can be sustainable on this planet - whether or not, in fact, we can endure.