Quotes About Endurance

You know what Winston Churchill famously said? 'When you're going through hell, keep going.

The human heart has a way of holding on for as long as it takes, until it has been fulfilled.

Maybe, she thought, the secret to a happy life was learning to get through the unhappy periods intact.

How do we do this?" she whispered, overwhelmed. "How do we bear the unbearable?" "Sometimes we don't," he said simply. "Sometimes we just breathe.

Maya Running

Time and circumstances could batter away at it, like waves on a rocky shore, but for some people, love never died.

how much I have to give, and it's got to be enough, damn it.

Several times Waves passed over our heads, but they fell back the next instant. We were drenched, we were numbed, we were blinded, we were deafened; but always we were saved.

There is a thing that I know but always forget: Winter is hard.

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

Die, but do not retreat.

If athletes could think of SM as sports, they'd understand the acceptance of pain, but they'd always want to know who was winning.

Second Lieutenant Yasuo Ko'o, devised a morbid system that estimated a man's life expectancy by his ability to stand or sit. If a man could stand, he might live thirty days; if he could sit up, three weeks; if he could only lie down, one week. If he urinated lying down, he had three days to live; if he stopped speaking, two days; and if he stopped blinking, just one day.18

Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success. The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them.

Josephine Cox

really doesn't

way and that,

Life… has a way of testing the fault line

but you have been in my hair for the last fourteen days, and I shall be very glad to get you out.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.