Laura Riding Quotes

War is unsettling.

I can be going through nothing, but within me, in my head, oh my God! It can be a circus.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

I'm a tough girl, I know what my job entails - it entails a lot more than standing in front of the camera. So I get it. I won't deny the physicality of it is exhausting, and sometimes my body just can't keep up. But it is ultimately about mind over matter.

Although motivation comes and goes, you can always rely on your will.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull,' Minho responded.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.

Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make it!"

The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.

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

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.