Quotes About Endurance

Dents in your mutual armor. No wonder you both look battered.

She is bone-chilled and a bit battered, but she breathes.

Jeanne M. Lee

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.

Nothing false will survive. Nothing true will perish.

I'm not saying you can live with it, I'm saying

Welcome to life. Life, something so sweet, something worth fighting for.

The physical book really has had a 500-year run. It's probably the most successful technology ever. It's hard to come up with things that have had a longer run. If Gutenberg were alive today, he would recognize the physical book and know how to operate it immediately. Given how much change there has been everywhere else, what's remarkable is how stable the book has been for so long. But no technology, not even one as elegant as the book, lasts forever.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

Regardless of what occurs on earth, what goes well, what doesn't go well, and all the things that challenge humanity and challenge us personally, the sun continues to rise every morning.

Like Atlas, I have broad shoulders. I can carry a grudge to the crack of doom.

The great Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver put it perfectly: In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour. (Rome wasn't built in a day.)" —ancient French proverb

The slight edge can carve the Grand Canyon. It can do anything. But you have to give it enough time for the power of time to kick in. The right choices and wrong choices you make at the moment will have little or no noticeable impact on how your day goes for you. Nor tomorrow, nor the next day. No applause, no cheers, no screams, no life-or-death

If you will commit to showing up consistently, every day, no matter what, then you have already won well more than half the battle.

The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success—if we would just keep doing them.

As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.

You see, there is no magic bullet, quick fix, or quantum leap method to reach success.

All you have to do is keep doing the things that got you this far. Which is exactly what 99.9 percent of people don't do.

Impossible just takes a little longer.

No success is immediate, no collapse is sudden. They are both the result of the slight edge accruing momentum over time.

The things that create success in the long run don't look like they're having any impact at all in the short run.