Quotes About Endurance

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Three things see no end- A flower blighted ere it bloomed, A message that was wasted, And a journey that was doomed.

We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can.

We're given a choice in our lives, to make things better, or worse, or merely endure like sheep. I choose to make things better, as much as I can.

There's your real heroes—the people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them.

Ordinary folks, a muddle in the middle, just trying to get by with the least amount of pain and the greatest amount of joy. He could not argue with that.

If something doesn't break soon, I'm going to look like a Brillo pad made of nerve endings.

Survival is a form of resistance.

Persistence can (sometimes) make things last but it doesn't always make things work. The muscle will harden wherever you give it exercise, but Endurance isn't always enough...Because Practice can make anything perfect ...even grief can become an art

You climb only because the mountain allows it. If it says wait, then you must wait, and when it allows you to go, then you must struggle and strain in the thin air with all your might. Listening to the mountain and having patience on it are the keys to survival.

Sometimes an ember is all we need.

Life rewards the dogged, not the qualified.

Any blisters on your shoulder blades would weep painfully, as the weight of the pack went back on. Then somehow your mind would shut out the pain, for a while. Until, by the end of the march, your shoulders would start to wilt and cramp up as if they were on fire.

Just let me get moving, I thought, and the pumping blood will shake the stiffness and pain from my back and feet.

He had forgotten the golden rule of cold, which the DS had told us over and over: 'Don't let yourself get cold. Act early, while you still have your senses and mobility. Add a layer, make shelter, get moving faster – whatever your solution is, just do it.

You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God. Matthew 5, v.2 (The Message Version)

Stick to the fight when you're hardest hit, It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

These made Trucker and me look back on the summer Selection days as quite balmy and pleasant! It is strange how accustomed you become to hardship, and how what once seemed horrific can soon become mundane.

But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Determination and faith are their strongest weapons. At best such men are regarded as eccentric; at worst, mad . . . Three things these men have in common: faith in themselves, great determination and endurance. *

And so often the darkest hour is just before the dawn.

And so often the darkest hour is just before the dawn. You just have to hang on in there through those dark hours - don't give up, let the mountain sustain you and empower you, and you will experience the mountain within you.

Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? Is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.

It's not rocket science: the rewards go to the dogged.

The rewards go to the dogged rather than the brilliant.