Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

Even if you are sick, you fight until you have nothing left.

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I've always believed in survival.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

I have the strength to endure it all.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.

If you have to, take a break, go to your corner, get some sleep, but don't ever give up. You will get there.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

I love fighting and will always have the heart of a fighter.

It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that India is decayed, bloodless and lifeless, too weak ever to recover; that our race is doomed to extinction. It is a foolish and idle saying. No man or nation need be weak unless he chooses, no man or nation need perish unless he deliberately chooses extinction.

The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

I'm going to keep on keeping on as long as I've got my health and strength, and God gives me that will to do it.