Stefan Zweig Quotes

The pain barrier was not a barrier for her; she could go beyond it.

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand anything, that you are not a slave to your body, you don't have to give in to its whining.

If you can go through the pain period, you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through it, forget it. And that's what most people lack: having the guts - the guts to go in and just say... "I don't care what happens"

Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.

When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself.

A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

I have the strength to endure it all.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I guess once you've seen Uma Thurman beaten up endlessly in the 'Kill Bill' movies, you think, 'If Uma can take it, what's the matter with me?'

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.