Quotes About Endurance

Boys normally attended the school for seven or eight years, beginning at the age of seven. The schoolday was long and characterized by an extreme devotion to tedium. Pupils sat on hard wooden benches from six in the morning to five or six in the evening, with only two short pauses for refreshment, six days a week.

but I had reached the point where aches and blisters were so central a feature of my existence that I ceased to notice them.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise and the weather should be little regarded. If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong. —thomas jefferson

And running—serious, dogged, long-distance running—is the one thing we do superlatively well.

In a sense William Shakespeare's greatest achievement in life wasn't writing Hamlet or the sonnets but just surviving his first year.

At 2 P.M., two long, cold hours after starting, Everett concluded his speech to thunderous applause—motivated, one is bound to suspect, more by the joy of realizing it was over than by any message derived from the content—and

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can fi nd humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)

It takes endurance to get on your knees and stay there until God supernaturally ignites a fresh thought in your mind.

Deep friendships are forged in the fire of pain. If

For health, more of your protein should be derived from plant sources so as to reduce fat intake. While we are not necessarily advocating a totally vegetarian diet, we are suggesting that endurance athletes and runners adopt a primarily plant-based diet.

By the time Payton had finished whipping him like a dominatrix, Stockton was thirty-four and heading toward the twilight of his career.

I thought you'd have learned by now. I'm going to stay by you until the sun and the moon and the stars spin down into darkness and dust.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Champions keep playing untill they get it right.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

My Hero Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once again by the roadside, this time to stick out his neck and nibble a bit of sweet grass, unlike the previous time when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower.

I) just had to show there's life in the old dog yet. (You) don't have to go out and shoot me.

Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.

Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

What is wonderful, incomparable and wholly divine is that this religion which has always survived has always been under attack.

Reading is a tool no one can take away. A million bad things may happen in life and it'll still be with you, like a flashlight that never needs a battary. Reading can offer a crack of light on the blackest of nights.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on