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Quotes About Endurance

The games I enjoy most are the ones I finish exhausted, and with knocks, but having played.
~ Thiago Alcantara
A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
~ Jack Dempsey
Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.
~ Damian Lillard
Guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, they'll take bad criticism in a good way.
~ Gary Payton
I built Kosovo for 10 years.
~ Ibrahim Rugova
After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.
~ William Henry Ashley
The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end. —Baroness Orczy
~ Karen Casey
It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon.
~ Karen Chance
I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon
~ Karen Chance
Why has Emrys not killed you? Why has everyone not killed you?" "They've tried." "Not hard enough!
~ Karen Chance
They were too cold and there was no lime, but today was obviously about hardships.
~ Karen Chance
Whatever he writes will mean You have not silenced me. Despite all your power, you are not all powerful. Men have often reduced his voice to gasps and weeping. They have crushed the power to speak from his body, from many bodies. But words written down outlive the vulnerability of the flesh. His songs will fly through the air like swallows. Recorded words can be passed along. In one form or another, they will be passed along. Movement is their essential nature.
~ Karen Connelly
True love is the steadfast presence of your lover, the willingness to stick it out when things get rocky. It demonstrates love when no one else is looking. True love is wholly committed, costing the giver time and effort.
~ Karen Ehman
They supposed that, even if they melted down all the calendars and smashed all the clocks, one minute would daftly follow another until some final cure were found for the malady of Time.
~ Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Because affection, she had learned, was such a civilized thing, compared to love. It exacted so much less and was therefore more enduring. And endurable.
~ Karen Fisher
Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.
~ Karen Hesse
You're] Too impatient to let anything brew to its full strength. What have I always told you? You have to raise a skeleton one bone at a time afore you can set it dancing,
~ Karen Maitland
Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.
~ Karen Marie
What are you" -Mac "I don't follow" -Jericho "You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac "A man with a rope." -Jericho
~ Karen Marie Moning
There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'll never be her first. But one day I'll be her last.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I get it the whole idea of willingly going to hell for someone. Living there insane if you have to because you'd rather be insane with them than endure life without them.
~ Karen Marie Moning