Quotes About Endurance

This is The Tonight Show. I can't tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

20a. What You Should Be Writing About Anything you can't get rid of by other means.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

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Fatigue makes cowards of us all, Dani. Your body is telling you to quit, but it's really your mind. You're not just conditioning your muscles; you're disciplining your thought process to stay positive.

It's hard to determine, at the start, what you will be able to bear for a lifetime.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

The human spirit, like a campfire, must be lit again each day.

It was like a fingernail on a dead man's hand that kept growing when all other life had ceased.

Death is but a moment, cowardice is a lifetime of affliction.

He held to it in the way of a man who holds the string of a kite that is so high he can't see it anymore, knowing that any moment it may break and the only way he will know it has broken will be by the sudden ripple of the string as it dances slowly groundward.

In the Christian life, it's not how you start that matters. It's how you finish.

You may get wounded; you may get roughed up. But you will not die until your work is done.

Gold is a constant. It's like a North Star.

I felt like hell the next morning. My hands were sore, my arms were sore, my legs were sore, and my back was sore. Aside from that I was fine.

Find that one glimmer of light in the darkness

a woman's love—it stands the test of time, logic, and all circumstance.

Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that — where there's only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you'd fall over. Your legs wouldn't support you.

You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory.

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets."

In her TED talk, Dr. Duckworth said, "One characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. It wasn't social intelligence. It wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't IQ. It was grit. Grit is a passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is stamina. . . . Grit is living life like it's a marathon and not a sprint.

2 Corinthians 4:16: "Though the outward man is perishing, the inward man is being renewed day by day" (NKJV).

Self-discipline is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger you become.