Endurance quotes

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.
-- Abigail Adams

#Character #Wish #Endurance

Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices
-- Adolf Hitler

#Strong #Sacrifice #Endurance

Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.
-- Alistair Begg

#Spiritual #Keys #Endurance

I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
-- Anne Tyler

#Survival #Promise #Endurance

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.
-- Annie Smith Peck

#Practice #Brain #Endurance

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Endurance #Wonder #Currency

A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Marine #Knights #Endurance

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Endurance #Fading #Limits

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
-- Bliss Carman

#Endurance #Events #Needs

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
-- Bob Brown

#Google #Endurance #Records

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.
-- Bruce Lee

#Art #Exercise #Endurance

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
-- Bruce Lee

#Endurance #Lost #Maximum

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
-- Catherine Martin

#Race #Suffering #Endurance

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

#Brother #Men #Endurance

Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.
-- Charles Studd

#Loneliness #Heart #Endurance

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
-- Chester Barnard

#Organization #Quality #Endurance

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.
-- Chin-Ning Chu

#Opportunity #Endurance #Process

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.
-- Chris Heimerdinger

#Endurance #Lasting #Offspring

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.
-- Christian D. Larson

#Men #Creative #Endurance

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland

#Suffering #Endurance #Causes

Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human is the biggest wimp in the wild. We have no fangs, no claws, no strength, and no speed.
-- Christopher McDougall

#Animal #Thinking #Endurance

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
-- Clara Hughes

#Sports #Athlete #Endurance

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.
-- Clarence DeMar

#Men #Two #Endurance

Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.
-- Clarence DeMar

#Endurance #Fifty #Six

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
-- Colum McCann

#Pain #People #Endurance

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Men #Endurance #Patient

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
-- Dean Acheson

#Father #Important #Endurance

Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both original and highly exemplary.
-- Dean Keith Simonton

#Achievement #Endurance #Peers

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
-- Denis Waitley

#Sports #Giving #Endurance

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
-- Djuna Barnes

#Endurance #Ruins #Inequality

Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.
-- Dr. Seuss

#Running #Fun #Endurance

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
-- Drew Barrymore

#Imperfection #Endurance #Hell

A lack of endurance is one of the greatest causes of defeat, especially in prayer.
-- Dutch Sheets

#Prayer #Endurance #Causes

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Endurance #Indecision #Form

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
-- Ellen Glasgow

#Brother #Endurance #Doctrine

The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.
-- Elmer Kelton

#Memories #Endurance #Events

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?
-- Epictetus

#Courage #Greatness #Endurance

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
-- Euripides

#Fate #Men #Endurance

Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?
-- Frank Shorter

#Endurance #Miles

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
-- Frederick Douglass

#Freedom #Tyrants #Endurance

Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world.
-- Friedrich Paulus

#Army #Men #Endurance

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
-- Friedrich Schiller

#Happiness #You Make Me Happy #Endurance

Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.
-- Gary Haugen

#Passion #Endurance #Needs

We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.
-- George A. Sheehan

#Running #Trying #Endurance

Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.
-- George A. Sheehan

#Integrity #Hero #Endurance

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
-- George F. Kennan

#Hero #Endurance #Moments

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.
-- George F. Kennan

#Writing #Historical #Endurance

If you stay in the running-if you have endurance-you are bound to win over those who haven't.
-- Glenn Cunningham

#Running #Winning #Endurance

The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.
-- Greg Sestero

#Drama #Endurance #Rooms

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Patience #Sorrow #Endurance

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
-- Haruki Murakami

#Running #Live Life #Endurance

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.
-- Henry Parry Liddon

#Perseverance #Men #Endurance

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
-- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#Endurance #Quiet #Significant

Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Patience #Endurance #Patient

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.
-- Hilary Mantel

#Mean #Endurance #Purpose

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.
-- Ilka Chase

#Marriage #Endurance #Rewards

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.
-- Ingrid Betancourt

#Journey #Effort #Endurance

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.
-- Jack Ma

#Leadership #Business #Endurance

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.
-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Night #Giving #Endurance

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
-- James Anthony Froude

#Endurance #Poor #Inequality

Endurance is the crowning quality...
-- James Russell Lowell

#Perseverance #Quality #Endurance

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
-- Janet Jackson

#Endurance #Crowds #Inequality

For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Fate #Endurance #Decree

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.
-- Jeff Gordon

#Strong #Racing #Endurance

I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.
-- Jennifer Pharr Davis

#Endurance #Limits #Pushing

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
-- Jesse Owens

#Running #Endurance

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.
-- Jim Thorpe

#Skills #Trying #Endurance

Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage and endurance that has been yours through the long, beautiful aeons of your life story...
-- Joanna Macy

#Beautiful #Long #Endurance

Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.
-- John Ford

#Forgiving #Endurance #Bears

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.
-- Johnny Kelly

#Boys #Years #Endurance

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)
-- Joseph Heller

#Endurance

Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.
-- Kate Atkinson

#Adventure #Race #Endurance

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.
-- Kathrine Switzer

#Running #Endurance #Watches

I am in limbo, and in limbo there are no races, no prizes, no changes, no chances. There are merely degrees of endurance, and endurance never was my strong point.
-- Keri Hulme

#Strong #Race #Endurance

Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks.
-- Kip Wells

#Endurance #Matter #Setback

I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.
-- Kristi Yamaguchi

#Trying #Endurance #Energy

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.
-- Lisa Bonet

#Excellence #Endurance #Levels

And when I look at my mother, I reflect on her strength and endurance. She's cranky sometimes, but she is lovable and loving. I'd be happy to be there at 86.
-- Lisa Scottoline

#Mother #Endurance #Looks

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.
-- Louis C. K.

#Wind #Endurance #Legs

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
-- Louise Erdrich

#Adventure #Men #Endurance

Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'
-- Marcus Aurelius

#Past #Mind #Endurance

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
-- Maria Mitchell

#Heart #People #Endurance

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Patience #Endurance

...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention...miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.
-- Marlo Morgan

#Wind #Wings #Endurance

The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.
-- Marty Liquori

#Athlete #Endurance #Realist

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart

#Endurance #World #Patient

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.
-- Mia Hamm

#Soccer #Athlete #Endurance

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
-- Michael Novak

#Endurance #Looks #Holding On

Wisdom and power follow endurance and patience.
-- Muhammad

#Endurance #Personal Power

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

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

#Determination #Soldier #Endurance

People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.
-- Natalia Makarova

#People #Dancing #Endurance

You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
-- Neil Peart

#Distance #Endurance #Lasts

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.
-- Nick Tosches

#Book #Endurance #Band

"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.
-- Orrin Woodward

#Real #Endurance #Talent

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.
-- Oswald Chambers

#Encouragement #Perseverance #Endurance

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.
-- Paul Shepard

#Endurance #Hunters #Humans

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.
-- Paul Shepard

#Men #Animal #Endurance

There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.
-- Paul the Apostle

#Endurance

Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.
-- Percy Cerutty

#Running #Men #Endurance