Natalie Zea Quotes

I have to play a bit of a physical game and try to work harder than everyone else.

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.

I was lucky I was blessed with the constitution of a horse.

Like everyone I am sometimes tired, but if I need to run I will try to run.

Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

Go out hard and finish harder.

Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

I have a strong constitution.

We all survive more than we think we can.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

The marathon can humble you.