Quotes About Endurance

She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside.

in our lifetimes we have so much to survive.

Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.

Septimus longed for a glimpse of Marcia. He wanted to see her face at the window, to know that she was all right... He longed to tell her that there was still hope. "Hold on as long as you can. Don't give up. Please don't give up.

One breath at a time is an acceptable plan, she tells herself.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

Be like the date that grows sweeter and sweeter , even though the soil that nourishes it is rocky and harsh

Maybe women were more realistic than men, maybe that was why they lived longer. But what hell they must endure in their selfishly guarded but lamentable old age.

There was no one to whom he could explain that in order to survive he needed to be at altitude, a Himalayan altitude, so he might breathe.

she used to say she would drown herself in but because she didn't, because she died, after all, in bed, I felt she was still trying to get there. A person needs to choose his death.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Jeeta Hu Magar Jeeta Bhi Nahi.......... Marta Hu Magar Marta Bhi Nahi........... Tere Gam ME Phanaa Hone Ke Liye..... Peeta Hoon Me Zahar...........

Most of the time the only difference between winning and losing is not quitting.

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead.

What's left to lean together with, longing against, when life's outlines get swept away? - Imru'l-Qays

with Authorzilla.

And miles to go before I sleep . . .

We weren't that sort of family. We just got on with things.

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.

Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable.

Once I had the opportunity to get my feet wet and play and enjoy this game, I just wanted to be on the floor at all times.

Far too often English players seem determined to keep running after getting a whack on the leg, even though the chance to get a shot in has gone.

I was really unfit for a while, so once I began running, I developed an obsession with it and started feeling really good. Then I thought I'd run a marathon after watching the London Marathon on TV. So I did it and had a good time. And then I ended up doing a bunch, and I was like, 'What if I could go further?' So I found out about Ultra Marathons.