#endurance

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#endurance #inspirational #life #strength #test

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#death #endurance #life #steadfastness #strength

Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#obstacle #perseverance #remote #struggle #design

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #loss #love #life

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. ↗

— Hubert Selby Jr.

#life #dreams

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#life #life

It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#perseverance #persistence #persistence

I've figured out why they call it a trial.  Because you try all you can to pull through it.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#difficulty #endurance #hardship #richelle #richelle-goodrich

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#battle #brutality #deprivation #documentaries #endurance

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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