Quotes About Endurance

Wasn't it amazing how resilient people were, how they persisted, how they kept trying to connect!

Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays. Just once he'd like to see a hero like himself -- not a quitter, but a man who did face facts and give up gracefully when pushing on was foolish.

In my opinion," Red said, "going to Florida for the winter is kind of like Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not paying your dues. Not standing fast for the hard part.

But what helped more was to walk down a crowded sidewalk sometimes, or through a busy shopping mall, and reflect that almost everyone there had suffered some terrible loss. Sometimes more than one loss. Many had lost their dearest loves, but look at them: they were managing. They were putting one foot in front of the other. Some were even smiling. It could be done.

he thought now that his mother's staunch sprightliness had been braver than he had appreciated in his youth. (Last summer, laid up for a week with a wrenched back, he had suddenly wondered how Bee had endured the chronic pain of her arthritis all those years. He suspected that had taken a good deal more strength than the brief, flashy acts of valor you see in the movies.)

You know we can't depend on Denny in any permanent way, Amanda told Nora, for instance. He might promise us the moon, but one day he'll up and leave us. I'm surprised he's lasted that long.

Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.

life by its mere appalling length is a feat of endurance for which you haven't the strength.

Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.

That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.

By now, Tally understood that nothing in the Smoke ever lost its value. Nothing was discarded or given away just because it was old or broken.

The war will end one day. Wars always do.

Scott Westerfeld

This is not a war, this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded.

They had seen things no human eyes had looked on before, and they had not turned their gaze away. They were in their own view a formidable group of men. No inferno would now melt them, no storm destroy, because they had seen the worst and they had survived.

In God's name, she thought, let the more loving one be someone else; for me it is beyond endurance.

And they never have to win; they just have to keep not losing.

They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.

He had survived two days in his underwear on the North Atlantic. Later, when asked how long it took him to warm up after his ordeal, he said, without a hint of irony, "Oh, three or four months.

Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

Here's a quote from ultramarathoner Dick Collins: Decide before the race the conditions that will cause you to stop and drop out. You don't want to be out there saying, "Well gee, my leg hurts, I'm a little dehydrated, I'm sleepy, I'm tired, and it's cold and windy." And talk yourself into quitting. If you are making a decision based on how you feel at that moment, you will probably make the wrong decision.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.