Quotes About Endurance

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.

Men will not always die quietly.

It would take one million men, one hundred years

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...