Isaac Marion Quotes

I think we were all frustrated with our daily routine.

I go from day to day and game to game.

All things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.

The marathon is like a bullfight.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.

Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pgs 103-104

Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

It is such an abundance of idiocy that you lose courage. That you lose hope. I don't want to lose hope. I get through every day. I'm pretty good. I work. I sleep. I sing. I walk.

I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.

I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.

Wounded Warriors tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons!

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom.

The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

I'm weary of the battle. But a tired fighter can still be a fighter.