Quotes About Endurance

An individual's frame is influenced by their willpower, perseverance, endurance, skill set, emotional maturity, and self assurance. The fact that frame is self-reinforcing is among its most significant features."

Kingdoms rose and fell but life went on.

He continued only so far as the chain of

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

I knew how to block out my issues in a sprint, but in marathons I ran out of gas. Consistency became a critical problem. On days that I was inspired, I was unstoppable. But other days I would play bad chess. The time had come for me to learn the science of long-term, healthy, self-sustaining peak performance.

Not only we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

Over the years, I've gotten better and better at returning from mental and physical exhaustion…The fighter who can recover in the thirty seconds between rounds…will have a huge advantage over the guy who is still huffing and puffing, mentally or physically, from the last battle.

Great ones are willing to get burned time and again as they sharpen their swords in the fire.

Mental resilience is arguably the most critical trait of a world-class performer, and it should be nurtured continuously.

You go to bed, too, and don't fret, hear me? Things feel hard now, but it will pass. Everything passes, and something new comes along to fill the space.

This is what Liza knows: People go under. They fall off the world, they go beneath and drown and die. Sometimes nothing saves you. But fuck it, she's still here. She is a living thing, with twelve pins now pressed into the tree-house oak in the backyard and a thirteenth coming

Those who stand strong will stand forever.

The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a willingness to accept the bad with the good, do we usually attain those things that are truly worthwhile.

He compared the trial to Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum." "Human nerves," he wrote, "even the strongest, have a limited capacity to endure moral torture.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

infinite games are constantly adjusted so that both players can remain standing.

The suffering he had endured lent him clarity, discipline, and faith in hard times—perhaps especially in hard times.

He concluded his speech by citing an old parable, of an Eastern monarch who charged his wise men to invent a sentence that would apply to all times and in all situations. The wise men returned with "And this too shall pass away.

sickness of hope deferred

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

That's a bad bruise." "I scarcely feel it." Indeed, she probably could have been smacked over the head with a log just then and would scarcely have noticed.

You will bend," I said. "For me, whenever and however I wish." My breath catching, I added, "But you will never break. You're far too strong for that and besides, I won't let you.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.