Quotes About Endurance

Be like the clam," Mason said. "At high tide?" "What's the difference?" he asked. "You gather clams at low tide." "Right," Mason said. "Be like a clam at high tide.

A few minutes of fear, a few seconds of anguish, and it is over.

Through endurance we conquer.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Hunger is good discipline.

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it. Doesn't it sound lovely beyond belief?

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

You'll ache. And you're going to love it. It will crush you. And you're still going to love all of it.

War is not won by victory.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

I am an old man who will live until I die, Anselmo said.

By guts I mean, grace under pressure

That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Grace under pressure.

Finishing is what you have to do. If you don't finish, nothing is worth a damn

I'm getting as bored with dying as with everything else, he thought. 'It's a bore,' he said out loud. 'What is, my dear?' 'Anything you do too bloody long.