Quotes About Endurance

In a world without cable channels and satellite television, videos and DVDs, movies and the Internet, an artist's creation was the one ever-present object that had to serve as a source of pleasure and inspiration over and over again, year after year, without becoming stale.

In his last years, Michelangelo worked on new pietà sculptures—not for any pope, but for his own diversion and probably for his own tomb. His eyesight had never recovered from his torment on the ceiling of the Sistine, and by this point in his life he was almost blind. He was sculpting more by feel than by sight—and yet he persevered, even trying new carving techniques right up until six days before his death.

When you run a marathon, you mean it. We're built for running. We dream of flying. For now, though, we're built to run.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

Human beings are creatures of hope. We seek it in everything we do, we live for it, and we die holding onto it.

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

He who can have patience can have what he will.

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

He that lives upon hopes will die fasting.

The punches you miss are the ones that wear you out. —Boxing trainer Angelo Dundee

Benjamin James Sadock

They protected themselves until the end and each one of them died a dog's death, as lonely as a star no telescope has discovered and therefore no one ever wants to reach.

When I have been compell'd to sit up all Night about some extraordinary Business, I needed to do no more than to take some of this Tea, when I perceiv'd my self beginning to sleep, and I could easily watch all Night without winking; and in the Morning I was as fresh as if I had slept my ordinary time; this I could do once a week without any trouble. [Quoting Dr. William Chamberlayne (1619–89), English physician and poet, in his Treatise of Tea.]

And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

In spite of ups and downs, the union between Jacques and Marguerite remained essential and indestructible. Nothing could undermine it over the forty-eight years of their life together. According to Avital Ronell, 'Marguerite never considered anyone to be a rival. She always had something nice to say about the women who were close or too close to Jacques, which does not mean that she did not suffer because of them.

Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.