Quotes About Endurance

The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.

the race isn't over until the checker flies.

Ninguna carrera se gana en la primera curva —dijo—. Pero muchas se pierden allí.

The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles—preferably of his own making—in order to triumph.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the others than it is to drive too hard and crash.

To finish first, first you must finish

No race has ever been won in the first corner," he said. "But plenty of races have been lost there.

Yes: the race is long—to finish first, first you must finish.

Love isn't a smiling bride who holds a colorful bouquet and gazes lovingly at her husband; it's a corpse-littered battlefield where the walking wounded have to keep searching for survivors or die themselves.

Man can get used to anything, even feeling better.

Sometimes you just have to play in pain

For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.

There aint never a horse that could'nt be rode and never a rider that could'nt be throwed

No storm is forever.

He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

Gary D. Schmidt

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If the roots are deep, have no fear that the wind will uproot the tree. CHINESE PROVERB

Hope is the poor man's bread.

leaning over me with the traditional greeting, "You have come to suffer. Suffer and endure." If children were born able to understand such a salutation, they would all squirm back into the womb, dwindle back into the seed. No doubt we did come into this world to suffer, to endure; what human being ever did not?

You could see a long way, but not half as far as Roger had gone.

Everyone accepts that limited resources must be managed, yet we fail to recognize that willpower is one of them. We act as though our supply of willpower were endless. As a result, we don't consider it a personal resource to be managed, like food or sleep. This repeatedly puts us in a tight spot, for when we need our willpower the most, it may not be there.

Willpower has a limited battery life but can be recharged with some downtime. It's a limited but renewable resource. Because you have a limited supply, each act of will creates a win-lose scenario where win ning in an immediate situation through willpower makes you more likely to lose later because you have less of it.

But the truth is that many animals perish because they have plain run out of steam.