180 quotes found
“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 ...”
“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”
“A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.”
“The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.”
“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
“When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance a...”
“Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.”
“Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.”
“Endurance is patience concentrated.”
“If you never persisted, you will never succeed.”
“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 plac...”
“Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.”
“It seems to me it's not genetic gifts for tolerating stress or resisting pain that take individuals through extraordinary feats of endurance. When it comes to the most daring of Earth's expeditions...”
“I learned to run toward the pain, not away from it. There is nothing like that feeling: pushing, your legs like two powerhouses, your cadence a seemingly effortless rhythm in sync with your mind, e...”
“They continued to run together for the next thirty minutes. Not a word between them, only the unspoken pulse of the run. Jacob believed runners shared an implicit doctrine: push through the pain to...”
“It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will conquer.”
“What happened yesterday was obviously a mistake, and it will never be spoken of again. Goodbye forever.”
“Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.”
“I was the kind to endure. No one had said you couldnt become a better person through endurance.”
“Endurance is a good virtue.”
