Quotes and Sayings About Endurance
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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 -
Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices
-- Adolf Hitler -
Endurance is a key indicator of spiritual fitness.
-- Alistair Begg -
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 -
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Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.
-- Annie Smith Peck -
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
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 -
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 -
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The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
-- Bliss CarmanSource : Bliss Carman (1903). “The Kinship of Nature”
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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
-- Bob Brown -
The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.
-- Bruce Lee -
Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
-- Bruce Lee -
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Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
-- Catherine Martin -
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
-- Charles Dickens -
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 -
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 BarnardSource : "The Functions of the Executive" by Chester Barnard, Harvard University Press, (p. 282), 1938.
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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 ChuSource : Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.77, Hachette UK
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Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.
-- Chris Heimerdinger -
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.
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Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
-- Christoph Martin Wieland -
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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.
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With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
-- Clara Hughes -
I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.
-- Clarence DeMarSource : Clarence DeMar (2016). “Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running”, p.23, BookBaby
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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 DeMarSource : Clarence DeMar (2016). “Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running”, p.143, BookBaby
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
-- Djuna Barnes