Quotes About Endurance

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Don't let your thoughts run away with you, don't start planning to bail out because you're worried about the future and how much you can take. Don't look ahead to the pain. Just get through the day,

The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.

Every bone in my body was crying out for rest, but I knew if I stopped, and perhaps slept, I would die. I had to keep going. It was strange, but the thirst which was killing me was also the driving force keeping me on this long, desperate march.

This thing is not going to last forever, and the flaming ferris wheel will continue to spin without you.

And a short nod of respect is in order, because it's harder to become a Navy SEAL than it is to get into Harvard Law School. Different, but harder.

No matter how many we ran to ground, there were always more.

I had eight magazines of 5.56mm bullets and ChemLights. As team lead, I carried flares, an extra radio, and an extra antenna stuffed in a cargo pocket. I had a computer and a medical pack containing QuikClot, bandages, needles, and tourniquets. I had water and food, too. I weighed about 250 pounds without my gear, and more than 325 with it. With every step I took, I could feel my spine compressing like a shock absorber.

And the way out of that is mental, in your mind. Don't buckle under to the hurt, rev up your spirit and your motivation, attack the courses. Tell yourself precisely how much you want to be here." The

No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets or how hard you fall, you are NEVER out of the fight.

Those instructors have watched men drop, watched them fail, watched them quit, and watched them quietly, with ice-cold, expressionless faces. That's not heartless; it's because they were only interested in the others, the ones who did not crack or quit. The ones who would rather die than quit. The ones with no quit in them.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We have the freedom to decide for ourselves how circumstances affect us and can choose to interpret events so that they have a meaning for us. In this way, even suffering can become endurable if it can be shown to be meaningful.

Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.