Quotes About Endurance

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

Resistance builds strength

It was the same with his glutes, substantial and strong and set high to power what often appeared to be an effortless skating stride.

I understand," she says, and then she quotes Du Fu: "The country is broken, but the mountains and rivers remain." Her eyes flash; he catches sight of the fire in this modest woman. "We are the mountains and rivers," he says, impressed. "No matter what the country is called.

It was a reminder of what a human self was, and what a human life was: not a beautiful glass lamp just this side of being broken, or a lovely gold ring with a single dent in it. But a bettered old seashell, formed over millions of years, made to endure.

Life rushed at her after her father died, as if to remind her that there can be no less life, that there can be no deprivation of life, that life is an endless and eternal living, even if your father is dead.

The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer.

Your good work wasn't wasted, because good work never is" -H.W. Marsworth

You're chosen by the One who will never unchoose you. You're loved when the crowd cheers and when the lights go out and they all go home.

I never knew You lived so close to the floor, but every time I am bowed down, crushed by this weight of grief, I feel Your hand on my head, Your breath on my cheek, Your tears on my neck. You never tell me to pull myself together, to stem the flow of many years. You simply stay by my side for as long as it takes, so close to the floor.

The human spirit is tremendously resilient. It can withstand the most horrific of circumstances, whether of human or divine creation... It is not these larger-than-life situations that beat us. It's the little things.

I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.

Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it's mark.

If I must bear it, though, I would bear it— find the whole meaning of it, taste the whole of it.

Love can die in many ways, most of them far more terrible than physical death.

It must be that, whatever its promise, love does not by itself endure. But why? What was the failure behind the failure of love ?

Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

My father Time is weak and gray With waiting for a better day; See how idiot-like he stands, Fumbling with his palsied hands!

Most of the time after the US Open, it is kind of like you are trying to finish strong. But to do it five years and maybe six is something that has never been done before, so it is a huge challenge.

Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.