Quotes About Endurance And Strength

#1. A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.

John Steinbeck

#2. Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#3. Sports were supposed to be a reflection of life, a life lesson, a test of endurance and strength, a great preparation for the real world.

Harlan Coben

#4. Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him.

Julius Lester

#5. God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Isn't it time that, loving, we freed ourselves
from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be,
in its flight, something more than itself?

Rainer Maria Rilke

#7. The world doesn't change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can't control fate, but I'm sure not going to spend whatever time I have left sitting around and waiting for my life to get better.

Caroline George

#8. Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.

Barry S. Strauss

#9. Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

Zainab Salbi

#10. If you take a hard look at the people in your life, you may be blown away by how many explorers and survivalists surround you. Everyday, I'm amazed by the number of people I meet, who have climbed Mt. Everest, time and time again ...
without ever having been to the Himalayas.

Jose N. Harris

#11. Every sphere of life demands enduring spirit and strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

Neil Strauss

#13. It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you.

Zack Love

#14. Much strength and endurance did she have stored inside her? He hoped to God she had enough to see this nightmare through.

Julie Garwood

#15. Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

John Ruskin

#16. Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks.

Kip Wells

#17. Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both.

Donna Lynn Hope

#18. The strength we find within ourselves gives us endurance and perseverance power.

Ellen J. Barrier

#19. There's an entire generation of male strength and endurance athletes, even recreational lifters, who have never gotten off the ephedrine-caffeine-aspirin stack. The process of getting off stimulants is really horrible.

Timothy Ferriss

#20. In His presence, we are able to find peace, strength, rest, endurance and all other tools we need for a successful day.

Ashley N. Sauls

#21. Tae kwon do required focus, strength, and endurance, but mostly it required the ability to deal with looking like an ass in public.

Chelsea Cain

#22. Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.

Lisa Scottoline

#24. [W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

Christine De Pizan

#25. I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#26. It is not his body which makes a man strong, but his spirit. Nothing on the outside, but only that which comes from within.

Jocelyn Murray

#27. Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves
from the loved one and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the string, collecting itself
to be more than itself as it shoots?

Rainer Maria Rilke

#28. 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 and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation.

Dhani Jones

#29. And now I see with eye serene
The very pulse of the machine
A being breathing thoughtful breath
A traveler betwixt life and death
The reason firm the temperate will
Endurance Foresight Strength and skill

William Wordsworth

#30. 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.

Thomas Carlyle

#31. The limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention ... miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.

Marlo Morgan

#32. With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.

Valtteri Bottas

#33. They are both all over physical sports that require being focused, accurate and having good strength. They are both fast with big consequences if things go wrong, so I have to be alert and aware at all times. With racing there is much more endurance and technical skill.

Liz Halliday

#34. Do not quit, endure and find strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart.

Anthony Liccione

#36. There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

Ann Aguirre

#37. Sometimes it seems that men
yes, and even women too!
if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.

Carter Dickson

#38. Marial and Uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but Salva knew that both of them would have wanted him to survive, to finish the trip and reach the Itang refugee camp safely. It was almost as if they had left their strength with him, to help him on his journey.

Linda Sue Park

#39. Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.

Mark Rippetoe

#40. When your leadership and legacy are built on love, obstacles are overcome through love's fruit of optimism, foundations are built solid and secure in love's values, and success is achieved through the strength found in love's endurance.

Farshad Asl

#41. My friends like to remind me that I have relatively weak fingers. Aerobic strength and general endurance have come easy, but finger strength has always been my biggest weakness.

Alex Honnold

#42. Sometimes, he thought of himself as an elephant walking through the china store, breaking everything in his path and still expecting people not to be angry with the damage he made, but rather to admire his strength and his endurance.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#43. Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.

Christopher McDougall

#44. With all the strength; Love encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith and acceptance of whom you love.

Auliq Ice

#45. For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

Colin Powell

#46. All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

Muhammad Ali

#47. With this life I give you endurance. Use it to keep going, even when you feel as though all hope and strength have left you.

Erin Hunter

#48. It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Alexandre Dumas