Quotes About Endurance

Wow, you guys are like cockroaches," Graham finally said. "You just won't die."16

Slow steady progress can erode any challenge over time.

Stay down!" I shouted to the passing crowd, and then because you think of weird things even at times like this, I wondered how you'd say that in French or if they would be able to translate or if, hey, the machine-gun fire would clue them in. Keeping

Enid snorted. "I like you, Mr. Greene. And ah, what the hell. I can't see how it will help you and yet…I've seen some strange shit. And bad stays. Bad doesn't go away. You bury bad, it digs itself out. You throw bad in the middle of the ocean, it comes back at you like a tidal wave.

If prison teaches you one thing, it's how to deaden yourself. You show nothing. Ever. You never allow yourself anything, even an emotion, because it will either be exploited or taken away.

Sports were supposed to be a reflection of life, a life lesson, a test of endurance and strength, a great preparation for the real world.

Recovery comes slowly. But the writing—which keeps me alive because it's all I've got—goes on.

Stomachs that were merely cauldrons of acid, bubbling, foaming, always shooting spears of sliver-thin pain into our chests. It was the pain of the terminal ulcer, terminal cancer, terminal paresis. It was unending pain … And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

Ich bin ein Jude, und wenn es etwas gibt, was Juden in ein bissel mehr als sechstausend Jahren gelernt haben, dann ist es, dass man Kompromisse eingehen muss, um es bis siebentausend zu schaffen.

The reception of aesthetic power enables us to learn how to talk to ourselves and how to endure ourselves.

Beckett: "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

The Lord never sends you more than you can bear—

It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.

Mut heißt: von vornherein wissen, dass man geschlagen ist, und trotzdem den Kampf - ganz gleich, um was es geht - aufnehmen und ihn durchstehen. Man gewinnt selten, aber zuweilen gelingt es.

Nearly never kills a bird

Aver coraggio significa sapere di essere sconfitti prima ancora di cominciare, e cominciare egualmente e arrivare sino in fondo, qualsiasi cosa succeda.

He never counted what it cost him; he never looked back.

It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Para mí es un misterio que sigan portándose tan bien después de llevar cien años soportando que les nieguen sistemáticamente que son seres humanos.

After ten forevers Dr. Reynolds returned.

A licking hurts but it doesn't last