Quotes About Endurance

It's like you're born and they put eggs and index cards and fish in a blender, and you have to drink it. Every sip is worse, but you have to keep going every day. The last sip is horrible and then the glass is empty, and life's over.

If the Super Bowl is the ultimate game, how come there is another one next year?

It was not that these men were cold-blooded or hard-hearted: death was something they had to take in their stride. Dwelling on it would probably drive a man mad

She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.

My solicitous wife has kept me going despite the ravages of time. I trust she is not weary in well doing nor tired of being thanked.

and then I knew that only the dreams of a stone don't become cracked and only the heart of a stone endures.

It's been told that swimming is a wimp sport, but I don't see it. We don't get timeouts, in the middle of a race we can't stop and catch our breath, we can't roll on our stomachs and lie there, and we can't ask for a substitution.

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Men can bear all things except good days.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

The biggest pitfall as you make your way through your life is impatience.

The harder the life, the finer the person.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.