Quotes About Endurance

Cancer reminds me of a very bad but tenacious performer who, although no one wants to see, insists on doing an encore, having a return engagement, making a comeback and, worst of all, going on tour.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

The worst thing is having to make weight before a fight. It's hard to cut down.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn't work hard enough in training. Ugh, that's the worst.

Booing is not going to affect you. It's not the worst thing I will hear. Boo. I've seen and heard worse things.

The worst thing you can do to a fighter is stop it before you give him a chance to give all he's got.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

All the games we play are worth the same because we can aim to get points in the league. Milan wants to fight until the end in the league and wants to compete with everyone until the last match day.

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

That's the best feeling ever, when you sacrifice and you realize in the end that it was worth it.

Really, it is all so worth it when you have your precious baby in the end.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang in there,' then at the end they will say, 'Oh God, I'm glad I hung on, it was so worth it.'

Angus has had a few swings at me, maybe two or three times in our whole career. But then it's done, and it's not gonna drag on, because it's not worth it. We have to stick together. And we know that.

I could never be a distance runner, because I can't run for more than ten minutes. There aren't enough iPod gigabytes in the world to make that worth it for me.

If you're gonna get punched in the face, elbowed, cut up, busted up, injured, have to cut weight, have to bring yourself to the brink of death to show up the next day and try to put on the performance of your life, you've gotta love it. And if I don't love it, it's just not worth it to me.

Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.

I didn't do anything for two years but work on 'Gone Baby Gone,' and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn't happen.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.