Quotes About Endurance

The one-legged never stumble.

After a few repetitions

Over a forty-two-year period.

Der Vorhang ist noch nicht gefallen, oder?' Ich nickte. 'Es ist erst vorbei, wenn es vorbei ist. Und das ist es noch lange nicht.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.

But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

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We ain't giving up," I said. "We done gone this far.

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

We had two tins of Virol, which we were keeping for an emergency; but, finding ourselves in need of an oil-lamp to eke out our supply of candles, we emptied one of the tins in the manner that most appealed to us, and fitted it with a wick made by shredding a bit of canvas. When

Next day on returning I found him dead in the snow with his head on the sill of the door—the door of his puppyhood's days; my dog to the last in his heart of hearts—it was my help he sought, and vainly sought, in the hour of his bitter extremity.

Bisogna essere duri senza mai perdere la tenerezza.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: "Beat it to death if it succeeds."

Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!

The ruin of his hopes leaves the steadfast man undismayed.

The lazy flesh disappeared. Our muscles became hard as steel, refined on the anvil of an experienced blacksmith. Even our faces changed. Among other things, we learned to ride, to fence, to take a fall. And these we learned for life.

Human nature is indeed indestructible.

Die Härte der Welt wird nur durch Härte gemeistert, nicht aber durch Taschenspielerei.

Mantenere: a dieci anni era il mio verbo preferito. Comportava la promessa di tenere per mano, mantenere.

C'è in me quello che si trova in molti uomini del mondo, amori, spari, qualche frase piena di spine, nessuna voglia di parlarne. Siamo dozzina noi altri uomini. Speciale è solo vivere, guardarsi di sera il palmo di mano e sapere che domani torna fresco di nuovo, che il sarto della notte cuce pelle, rammenda calli, rabbercia gli strappi e sgonfia la fatica.