Endurance & Stamina Quotes

People assume that you need to run fast to get to optimum fitness, but the truth is endurance lifting makes you stronger and leaner.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

For Le Mans, you still have to keep fit, it's endurance. It's a different type of fitness. You want to actually fit in the car - the seats are ridiculously small.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Fitness has always been one of my strengths. I can do all the long-distance runs. When I was at school and we entered the competitions, I used to do the 100m, 200m, and the 1500m as well, so it's never just been a pace thing.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

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

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in 50 Days. It's the ultimate expression of what I love to do, which is run, and travel, and see this great country.

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

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

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.

When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Making fitness a priority will energize you, make you look and feel better, and help diffuse stress.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

I think I got stamina from my dad, although he didn't have a lot of drive.

For me fitness is not about fighting fat or aiming thinness, it is about having the stamina and physical energy to keep up with my professional demands and day to day requirements of life.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

But I always had in built strength. I used to do like push ups for three hours. It's building up that core fitness and stamina.

It is not easy to participate in the 21 km. marathon. It takes a lot of energy, determination, and will power. It takes months to train to reach that mark with a proper diet chart.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight.

My stamina was my strength.