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• Those who can bear all can dare all.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Bears, Dare

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• Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Witty, Clever

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• 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.

  Thomas Mann

  Positive, Simple, Triumph

  Thomas Mann (1965). “Death in Venice”

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• There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Running, Men, Despair

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

  Tom Cruise

  Life, Thinking, Knowing

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• Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

  Teresa of Avila

  Patience, Patient, All Things

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• Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

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• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

  Theodore Bikel

  Memories, Soul, Battle

  "Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism". Book by Michael Mandaville, 2009.

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• A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Fall, Creativity

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.156, Best Books on

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• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Achievement, Soul, Doe

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• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Determination

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• He conquers who endures.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Determination

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• Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

  Nelson Mandela

  Strength, Courage, Commitment

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Janet Jackson

  Crowds, Inequality

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• Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Nature, Philosophical, Men

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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• The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

  James Anthony Froude

  Poor, Inequality, Humans

  James Anthony Froude (1894). “Caesar: a Sketch”

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• The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

  Joseph Conrad

  Power, Sea, Generosity

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.118, Xist Publishing

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• What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

  Djuna Barnes

  Ruins, Depravity, Inequality

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• Endurance is the crowning quality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Perseverance, Quality

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.133

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• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Silly, Long, People

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays”, p.77, Grove Press

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• You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.

  Scott Jurek

  Hurt, Bigs, Deals

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Strong, Grief

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Running, Fun, Hot

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