Quotes About Endurance

I've stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.

I've always maintained you can either cure your neuroses or you can just outwait them.

There is no need to outrun the lion. All that is necessary for a man to do in order to survive is to outrun his friends.

They look like good, strong hands.

You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder…, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.

Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

He rode by day and he rode by night, in the scorching sun and the pelting rain.

Tu, lentissima fra i lenti, come puoi arrivare laggiù?» «Passo dopo passo.»

But even the longest and darkest of nights passes sooner or later. And when the pale dawn came, they glimpsed the Ivory Tower on the horizon.

If it's to get well, it has to hurt. If it stopped hurting, your arm would be dead.

His will had become as hard as steel, neither fatigue nor hardship could bend it.

One of the big challenges in studying aging is this: Aging isn't a disease that has an end point. Ultimately, death is the end point, but aging is really a cluster of diseases, processes, conditions, and system errors that result in loss of years and loss of quality of life.

Once you begin throwing your life away, you have to go through it until the compulsion to destroy has run its course.

Being a warrior is not about the act of fighting. It's about being so prepared to face a challenge and believing so strongly in the cause you are fighting for that you refuse to quit.

The Department of the Army's Field Manual 3-05.70 states about survival: A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude of the individual involved.

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot... and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Winning has a price. And leadership has a price. So I pulled people along when they didn't want to be pulled. I challenged people when they didn't want to be challenged. And I earned that right because [other] teammates came after me. They didn't endure all the things that I endured.

It was the face of a nonreligious ascetic, capable of enduring hardship and pain beyond what most men would even want to contemplate, a true believer in other people's causes, a curious combination of scholar and man of action, and, most important of all, a dreamer.

The final two words of his challenge, "no tears", meant that the loser was expected to suffer a great deal of pain, but wasn't entitled to whine, bitch or moan about it. He'd just have to hunker down and keep his poverty to himself.

The batter's box was a cage designed to crush his spirit.

York Giants' linebacker has been so completel

Clark's new enterprises: endure the humiliation of not fully understanding your job, and you might never need to work again.