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Quotes About Endurance

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
~ George Sewell
I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'
~ Helen Mirren
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.
~ Henry James
Hope is the mainspring of life.
~ Henry L. Stimson
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
~ Horace Mann
Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.
~ Jane Green
To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.
~ Cecelia Ahern
You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.
~ Chris Cooper
Waiting is one of life's hardships.
~ Daniel Handler
A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.
~ Dean Karnazes
This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.
~ Deborah Keenan
Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.
~ Deborah Levy
The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life
~ Diana Nyad
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
~ Elie Wiesel
Hold fast to life and youth.
~ Elizabeth Arden
Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.
~ Fauja Singh
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.
~ Francis Bacon
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.
~ Frank Norris
Life wears us down. We all die here. Depending upon the way you expose yourself to energies and powers and forces will determine whether you have a lot of energy or you lose energy.
~ Frederick Lenz
Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.
~ Adelaide Anne Procter
Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.
~ Aesop
In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.
~ Amby Burfoot