Quotes about endurance

Heather O'Reilly -

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Success is reserved for you if you persevere it's not deserved by you if you are indolent!

Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Mastery is not dispensed on the podium of quitters but purchased on the counter of consistent application of self-willing can do spirit and an outstanding endurance to persevere with persistent endurance till the end!

Steve Goodier -

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine every dark night will finally fade into dawn.

Bohdi Sanders - Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence

Survival is the foundation of endurance complete triumph is the endgame.

A.J. Darkholme - Rise of the Morningstar

Time spent worrying - about anything - provides no emotional or physical benefit to us such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Courage provides you with two qualities the capability to begin something and the ability to endure it to the end! Let no one stop you from sparking your life with courage!

Munia Khan -

I will not move an inch I've become an anvil to endure every act of striking

Richard Baxter - The Saints' Everlasting Rest

Are you not in a race and is not the prize the crown of glory and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)

James Anthony Froude -

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Henry V. O'Neil - Glory Main

Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too.

Sage Steadman - Upon Destiny's Song

They could have fought against it, begged for another way or gone off the path in hopes of finding an easier passage. Instead, they looked upon the trail ahead, the rough ridge, now bound by thick snow, and they accepted the path they had chosen.

Tahir Shah -

Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way.

Rick Yancey - The Last Star

It's always been this way, I wanted to tell him. We bear the unbearable. We endure the unendurable. We do what must be done until we ourselves are undone.

Manuela George-Izunwa -

Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

With a perseverance spirit, you withstand any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Patience endurance define the attractiveness of life.

L.G. Abell - A Mother's Book of Traditional Househould Skills

An ordinary intellect will, by industry and perseverance, often accomplish more than a much superior one, deficient in energy and the power of endurance.

Jerry Bridges - The Pursuit of Holiness

Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God' (Hebrews 12:1-2). Jesus was motivated to endure by anticipating the joy of His reward. No amount of hardship and struggle could deprive Him of that anticipation.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

With patience endurance, you can survive any storm.

Ellen J. Barrier -

The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone.

Israelmore Ayivor -

It is not the best for us to lay embago on the industries that produce temptations. What we need to do is to compete, overcome and dominate the market with the products of our endurance. No battles we face, no crown will we win. No temptations exist, no conquerors are known.

Jocelyn Murray - The Gilded Mirror: Constantinople

Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…

Orrin Woodward - LIFE

Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.

Orrin Woodward -

It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.

Han Kang - The Vegetarian

The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but fa

Rodney A. Winters -

Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.

Alexandra Silber - After Anatevka: A Novel Inspired by Fiddler on the Roof

There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

If you wish to overcome any difficulty, resolved to endure adversity.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Adversity tests the strength of endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Adversity is test of faith.

Joy Williams - The Quick and the Dead

There was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

Joy Williams -

hThere was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

Auliq Ice -

A good place can always be found in a place you think there is pain.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

Drinking caffeinated drinks including high potency energy drinks, and consuming other enablers, we do not need to develop an internal source for the energy, effort, endurance, and enthusiasm needed to confront each day.

Donald L. Hicks - Look into the stillness

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

Neil Nakadate - Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

Sunday Adelaja -

God always gives riches to diligent people who persistently aim for the goal and who continue to be diligent

Auliq Ice -

The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

You can endure every hardship with hope.

Jonathan Edwards - Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions: And Advice to Young Converts

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Be patient and wait for due harvest.

Ben Greenfield - Health Life

In a nutshell: Stress is stress - no matter whether it's from exercise or from lifestyle - and the more stress you're placing on yourself from your lifestyle, the less stress you'll be able to place on yourself from exercise.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.

K. Howard Joslin - Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

Quite frankly we are both tired of the race we have been asked to run.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn -

The Existentially Preoccupied Long Distance RunnerSometimes I like to run so hard and for so longwith each mile I can feel the pain of my own awareness,my own heightened consciousness of what ails me,the ills of the world,the limitations of our existence,the losses we must endure,the superficial interactions.Sometimes I like to run so hard and for so longthat I can feel all of these feelings seep out of the pours of my own skin,the sweat cleansing my very being,my awareness of beauty heightened,

Tahir Shah - Travels With Myself

Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

J.C. Ryle - Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century

Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full possession of their spiritual faculties; and it is well and wisely ordered that it is so. What we win easily, we seldom value sufficiently. The very fact that believers have to struggle and fight hard before they get hold of real soundness in the faith, helps to make them prize it more when they have attained it. The truths that cost us a battle are precisely those which we grasp most firmly, and never

Joyce Carol Oates - Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.

Christian D. Larson -

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

Mary E. Pearson - The Fox Inheritance

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

Patrick O'Brian - Post Captain

The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.

Vann Chow -

If you never persisted, you will never succeed.

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Selected Poems

First the mania for confession,then the mania for clarity,issued from you, dark, hypocriticalsentiment! Let them nowcondemn my every passion, let themdrag me through the mud, call me twisted,foul pervert, dilettante, perjurer;you keep me apart, give me life’s assurance:I burn at the stake, play the card of fireand win: I win this small,vast possession, my infinite,miserable pitywhich makes even righteous anger my friend.And I can do this because I’ve endured you too long!

Kristiane Backer - From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That’s fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one

Greek Proverb -

He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Endurance is spiritual.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

My world burns severe.Pockets of sweltering air attack every inch of me exposed, heated by fire spewed forth from the lungs of dragons. For defense I raise a glowing sword that shines by virtue of powers contrary to those I fight against. It is a battle that rages on and on for as long as any man can endure. But there are days I feel I cannot―drained and weary unlike these monsters that lash at me as if sustained by an abiding fervor in their bellies. The battle is harsh and my weapons

Lois McMaster Bujold - Komarr

It’s just a thing. You deal with it." "As in, one damn thing after another?""Yes, very like.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -

Waiting is not wasting. It is a strategy for champing for greater things.

Anthony Liccione -

A distant love that waits to be together, is by far the most difficult relationship. It's like lighting a candle, and adoring the long flame and robust glow. Until time sets in like wax, overflowing deeper and deeper into the wick, leaving a sparse flame struggling to live. This is where most distant relationships fade, with the wax smothering the flame. This kind of relationship takes patience, hope, unconditional love, trust and strength, all centered around God. If the flame endures to the en

Goitsemang Mvula -

Craving for the top of the mountain is a feeling to yearn for, an endurance we learn from.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Do not be in a hurry, wait for the harvest.

Akilnathan Logeswaran -

When the time has come, every leaf turns to face the sun!It doesn't know if it has to, but because the call has reached it:Not knowing what to expect, it will, move slightly, twist patientlyand try to embrace whatever is coming! It might be too strong, it might be too weak, it also might just be perfect!

Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformati

Joan Borysenko - A Woman's Journey to God

You are at my side, dear friends, and God is everywhere. Yet ultimately we are alone, making our way home by the candle of the heart. The light is steady and sure but extends only far enough to see the next step.Many times the light seems to go out. But another light, one held by a stranger or friend, a book or a song, a blackbird or a wild flower, comes close enough so that we can see our path by its light. And in time we realize that the light we have borrowed was always our own.

Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose

It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to do but sit still until they pass. Tantrums and passions I don't need, endurance is what I need. I have found that it is even possible to take a certain pleasure out of submission to necessity. That have I borne, this can I bear also.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

May you wait for God’s own fulfilment of His promises.

Tahir Shah - In Search of King Solomon's Mines

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make their nests, etc. Upon all these, the tree is still tree!

Tumpal Sihombing -

Running strengthens self-motivation.

Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Own 100 percent of your focus. The most challenging of endurance drills will bring you to a level of optimal mental and physical performance.

James Crumley - The Last Good Kiss

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

Calvin W. Allison - Shadows Over February

Great men must go through great painThe strongest stormsThe hardest rainThe toughest climbsThe roughest terrainGreat men must go through great pain

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Every face of life demands endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Endure every hardship with hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

May you find the faith, hope and courage to survive life.

Homer - The Odyssey

Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear

Steven Tyler -

They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.

Aberjhani - Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

There are tomorrows on their way worth the struggles of today. Never give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich -

I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.

Diet Eman - Things We Couldn't Say

Being exhausted, yet keeping up the pursuit.' (Judges 8:4) Even after what I had said of wanting out, even after that humiliation, the physical exhaustion, the deep despair I felt, those words were my new marching orders. The next morning, I swung my rucksack over my shoulders and was off again.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.

Roger Bannister -

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

The magic of achievement is persistent endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Run the race of life with all endurance.

Richelle E. Goodrich - The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul

Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated.   It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation—a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create. 

Anthony Marra - The Tsar of Love and Techno

Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The power of waiting is gracious.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

With extra patient, realities will enfold.

Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Those 10000 days in prison, but this never made Nelson Mandela to leave what he was doing. He loved what he did and he would repeat to again if he had been arrested again and imprisoned again! He has his bigger picture in view!

Roald Dahl - The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Don’t give up on yourself. Be strong!

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

With patient, you will get what you must have.