Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Strength and struggle travel together.

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

That which yields is not always weak.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

You have to be resilient.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy - some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

I've stood the test of time, weathered a lot of storms and hurdled a lot of obstacles.

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

There are going to be games where you don't have the greatest conditions, so to show that you can do it in bad conditions is a plus.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

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

Resilience can go an awful long way.

Every game is mentally and physically tough but we get through it and it makes you stronger.

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.