Quotes About Endurance

That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

I am an incredibly strong person and an incredibly fast person.

Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.

Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.

People go through things in life where they put a certain amount of work or time in and you feel indestructible.

Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

When I wrote "God Bless America," they said it was too corny, but it's still around.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

one of the most decisive factors enduring a borderline situation is the WILL TO SURVIVE. -Reinhold Messner

Physical exertion is the best food for your spirit and your brain.

Love unto exhaustion, work unto exhaustion, and walk unto exhaustion....The only mortal danger for the spirit is to remain too long without it. The world is made of fire. —MARK HELPRIN, A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR

Defying Fate's and Fortune's will; What first was fair, is glorious still.

Patience wins the race.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

I feel nothing except a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

One thing at a time, as in the days when I was building Joshua. If I had wanted to build all the boat at once, the enormity of the task would have crushed me. I had to put all I had into the hull alone, without thinking about the rest. It would follow . . . with the help of the gods. Sailing non-stop around the world is the same. I do not think anyone has the means of pulling it off—at the start.

Man is always the strongest.

Viimaste ellujääjate agoonia on ilmselt kõige hullem.

Iga kirg väärib ohverdusi ja kannatusi.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.