Quotes About Endurance

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

Focus is a choice. The runner who is concentrating on how much his left toe hurts will be left in the dust by the runner who is focusing on winning. Even if the winner's toe hurts just as much. Hurt, of course, is a matter of perception. Most of what we think about is. We have a choice about where to aim the lens of our attention.

Short-term pain has more impact on most people than long-term benefits do, which is why it's so important for you to amplify the long-term benefits of not quitting. You need to remind yourself of life at the other end of the Dip because it's easier to overcome the pain of yet another unsuccessful cold call if the reality of a successful sales career is more concrete.

Here's an assignment for you: Write it down. Write down under what circumstances you're willing to quit. And when. And then stick with it.

most competitors quit long before they've created something that makes it to the top.

The Dip is the long stretch between beginner's luck and real accomplishment. The Dip is the set of artificial screens set up to keep people like you out.

When people quit, they are often focused on the short-term benefits. In other words, "If it hurts; stop!

The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it's there. Knowing that you're facing a Dip is the first step in getting through it.

the opposite of quitting is rededication.

I can do this forever. It's like adjusting a pair

Tennis has a Dip. The difference between a mediocre club player and a regional champion isn't inborn talent—it's the ability to push through the moments where it's just easier to quit. Politics has a Dip as well—it's way more fun to win an election than to lose one, and the entire process is built around many people starting while most people quit.

No, the reason that most of them didn't have a chance is that somewhere along the way they quit. They didn't quit high school or college or law school. Instead, they quit in their quest to be the best in the world because the cost just seemed too high.

Quitting when you're in the dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the dip just wastes the time you've already invested.

You can't sprint every day, but it's probably a good idea to sprint regularly. It keeps the resistance at bay.

Dips don't last quite as long when you whittle at them.

Vazgeçmek mutlaka pes etmek anlam?na gelmez.

If you can get through the Dip, if you can keep going when the system is expecting you to stop, you will achieve extraordinary results. People who make it through the Dip are scarce indeed, so they generate more value.

Jay Levinson famously said, "Don't change your ads when you're tired of them. Don't change them when your employees are tired of them. Don't even change them when your friends are tired of them. Change them when your accountant is tired of them.

If you quit right in the middle of building that frequency, it's no wonder you never got a chance to earn the trust.

Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment." Now that's good advice.

Emotional labor is the work of doing what we don't feel like doing. It's about showing up with a smile when we're wincing inside, or resisting the urge to chew someone out because you know that engaging with him will make a bigger difference.

When you sail, don't Pull up the anchor weeping. Be a man, do it laughing...

Trample! It was to be trampled on by men that I was born into this world. It was to share men's pain that I carried my cross.

Es verdad que guardaba silencio, pero se le quedaba mirando con una mirada transida de ternura. Parecía querer decir: «Cuando tú sufres, Yo sufro a tu lado. Estaré a tu lado hasta el final».