Quotes About Endurance

A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person

Passion can't sustain itself forever.

You concentrate on waiting for someone and after a certain time it hardly matters what happens anymore. It could be five years or ten years or one month. It's all the same.

To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm. This is the important thing for long-term projects. Once you set the pace, the rest will follow.

Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It's when you can't even feel any pain anymore that you're in real trouble.

No matter how shallow and dull things might get, this life is worth living.

Things cultivated over such a long time don't just vanish into nothingness.

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there - to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

For a while is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting. And probably is a word whose weight is incalculable.

The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.

I had to put my faith in time.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you're running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can't take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself. This pretty much sums up the most important aspect of marathon running.

Pain is invisible, and known only to the sufferer.

There has to be pain. That's the rule

I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you take care of the birds and the fields every morning, every morning I wind my own spring.

I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things—unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings....

No matter how tired the body gets, one must never let the exhaustion enter one's thoughts.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things--unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings. That's got to be the most difficult strength of all to make your own. I know....

Even if I left this world, I doubt anyone would notice. I would shout out from the dark, but no one would hear me. Still, I have to keep soldiering on until I die, the only way I know how. Not a laudable sort of life, but the only life I know how to live.

Nos cÅ"urs ne sont pas de pierre. Les pierres peuvent s'effondrer et se briser, perdre leur forme. Mais le cÅ"ur ne peut pas s'effondrer. Le cÅ"ur n'a pas de forme mais il peut se propager à l'infini.

I'm going to swim 0.93 miles, ride a bike 24.8 miles, then run a final 6.2 miles. And what's all that supposed to prove? How is this any different from pouring water in an old pan with a tiny hole in the bottom?

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

In other words, what we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.