Quotes About Endurance

Any attempt to produce love, joy, peace, endurance, and so forth apart from the Spirit of God is reliance upon strategies that are in competition with God. Management

Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.

I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty-- no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.

and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty—no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.

It's not how you start that's important, but how you finish!

The primary markers of physical capacity are strength, endurance, flexibility and resilience.

Sprinters typically look powerful, bursting with energy and eager to push themselves to their limits. The explanation is simple. No matter how intense the demand they face, the finish line is clearly visible 100 or 200 meters down the track. We, too, must learn to live our own lives as a series of sprints—fully engaging for periods of time, and then fully disengaging and seeking renewal before jumping back into the fray to face whatever challenges confront us.

Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth. In order to build strength in a muscle we must systematically stress it, expending energy beyond normal levels.

Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth. In order to build strength in a muscle we must systematically stress it, expending energy beyond normal levels. Doing so literally causes microscopic tears in the muscle fibers. At the end of a training session, functional capacity is diminished. But give the muscle twenty-four to forty-eight hours to recover and it grows stronger and better able to handle the next stimulus.

Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.

The most important organizational resource is energy.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Hockey is murder on ice.

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.

You know you have had a productive day when you run out of semen.

You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything... I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.

T" is for Tenacity.

what else is there to do but laugh and joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?

Don't give up, don't ever give up.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

When I finished with him [Maradona] he was like a racing colt.

The word was the ember and the forest was my life.

If you want to live, you must walk. If you want to live long, you must run.