Quotes About Endurance

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet . - Angus Malone

War doesn't determine who's right, only who's left.

Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet. - Angus Adams

We start something and then we stop. When Dusan coaches his clients his recommendation is this: stop stopping.

The harder you are on yourself, the easier life is on you. Or, as they say in the Navy Seals, the more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war.

stop stopping.

Slow And steady wins every time.

Even though the ball comes to a rest, the energy that once moved it is still here, it's been converted … , but it won't disappear. … Nothing stops.

DID STAND-UP COMEDY for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success.

I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years.

Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

Think about all the time, brainpower, and social or political capital you continued to spend on some commitment only because you didn't like the idea of quitting.

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty.

The message is unequivocal: failure may be an option but quitting is not.

Failure may be an option but quitting is not.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. —Ovid

A wound only begins to heal when you make it scream. Pain is the key, a message from the brain that the blood flows again into mending flesh, that your will shall conquer weakness. If you lie there and try to fight it, you'll simply rot.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities. . . . I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.

To get around these things, Maus lived at the back of a closet. The door was

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.

Odyssean self-control [...] is more effective than the strenuous exertion of willpower, which is easily overmatched in the moment by temptation.