Enduring Strength Quotes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Sometimes durability's better than ability, especially in this crazy sport.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

My mom is the best. She's so nuts.

In the unlikely event of the wound being mortal, I want to die with my boots on.

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

Being from Serbia makes us tough and eager to prove that we can come from this country that has been through so much and still be successful.

But the guy who got hit and still tried to get in line, then gets hit again, that's the guy I will take with me on the field every day.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

I will never tire. I'm full of energy.

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.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Hold fast to life and youth.