Mountain Iron Man

Never mistake endurance for hospitality. - Unknown

Tenderness relieves strength that encumbers. - Toba Beta

Your inner strength is your outer foundation. - Allan Rufus

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. - Phyllis Diller

As iron sharpens iron, one man sharpens another. - Bible

We all have enough strength to follow our reason. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. - Dag Hammarskjold

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat. - Geoff Stults

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. - Samuel Johnson

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. - Lao-tzu

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - Mark Twain

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Chinese Proverb

The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it. - Croft M. Pentz

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. - Mother Teresa

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. - Thomas W. Higginson

These days there are not many sports owners who have ever worn the jockstrap. - George Steinbrenner

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles... it empties today of its strength. - Mary Englelbreit

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go. - J.C. Watts

Don't stop at the first obstacle; have endurance to keep on going and you will succeed. - Robert A. Schuller

Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength. - John F Kennedy

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. - Rita Rudner

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. - Dag Hammarskjold

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. - Phyllis Diller

We can smile even though we are hurting and we can feel happy even though we are unhappy. It's called strength. - Thea Destiny

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability. - Cicero

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough. - Propertius

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. - Judith Viorst

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence. - Buddha

One of the greatest things about the sport of surfing is that you need only three things: your body, a surfboard, and a wave. - Naima Green

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi

People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. - Andrea Bocelli

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport. - Kelly Slater

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. - William James

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. - W H Auden