Quotes About Endurance

And if it turns out that she's the one, no matter what, remember what you're fighting for, even if it feels like you're the only one fighting sometimes.

So I ask you, can you walk a mile? Every day, rain or shine, pain or gain, because you know you have to just to stay alive, just to breathe. Can you walk that mile?

Even if life sometimes knocks you down, you're going to get right back up again.

love is worth the struggle. Always.

As long as you're by my side, I'm ready for absolutely anything.

when people were meant to be together, even if they sometimes had a rough road to travel, things worked out in the end the way they were supposed to. After

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

Over and over, she had tended that dress as it wore out, knotting the first loose threads, catching the next tiny rent, mending and hiding the splits one after the other, wearing the dress as long as the fabric could be decently held together, until eventually there came a tear too wide to be bound up, and the dress had to go. Perhaps her life with Bud had been like that and had been destined to end even without his death.

As Conan the Barbarian famously said, "That which does not kill us does not kill us.

But morning always comes, no matter what sort of night you've had; this is an underappreciated fact.

And through all that dreadful darkness she had remembered him. He who loved her. He who still loved her. Who would always love her.

Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel.

as Abe Lincoln said, I was sick from my stovepipe hat to the worn out soles of my shoes.

Like a soldier standing long under fire, any change comes as a relief.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Keep your head up. Keep your heart strong

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

The trauma was perpetual when you were left in it alone.

The worst is over. I am with you," I quoted, "and I know how it is.

At the age of nineteen, Gordievsky took up cross-country running. Something about the solitary nature of the sport appealed to him, the rhythm of intense exertion over a long period, in private competition with himself, testing his own limits.

Like long-distance running, successful espionage requires patience, stamina, and timing.

I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm, crouch, square off, meet an attack with something like resistance, even if it kills them.

I am bleeding to death. It doesn't hurt at all.