endurance quotes

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

F2’s much harder physically on the arms and almost on the whole body than F1 is.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Nothing endures but change.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Great loves too must be endured.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.