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• 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, Legs, Shapes

  "Louis C.K. Talks LOUIE Season 3, Writing, Directing and Starring in Every Episode, Having Jerry Seinfeld and Robin Williams Guest Star and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2012.

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• A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Iron, Joy

  Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”

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• Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

  Dean Karnazes

  Book, Adventure, Air

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• This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Passing Away, Consolation, All Things

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1990). “The Marble Faun: or, The Romance of Monte Beni”, p.119, Penguin

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• Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.

  John Ford

  Forgiving, Bears, Godlike

  John Ford (2014). “'Tis Pity She's a Whore”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Psychics, Healthy, Inquiring

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• Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the secrets of the tropical jungles have been revealed. The highest mountains of the earth have heard the voice of man. But this does not mean that the youth of the future has no new worlds to vanquish. It means only that the explorer must change his methods.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Mean, Men, Voice

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• A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Dying, Function

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.131, Penguin

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• We learn to endure to the end by learning to finish our current responsibilities, and we simply continue doing it all of our lives. We cannot expect to learn endurance in our later years if we have developed the habit of quitting when things get difficult now.

  Robert D. Hales

  Responsibility, Years, Quitting

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• We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE to seek justice and protection. We are impoverished; we are oppressed, overburdened with excessive toil, contemptuously treated . . . We are suffocating in despotism and lawlessness. O SIRE we have no strength left, and our endurance is at an end. We have reached that frightful moment when death is better than the prolongation of our unbearable sufferings. . .

  Orlando Figes

  Children, Justice, Wife

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• Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us.

  Joumana Haddad

  Perseverance, Determination, War

  Joumana Haddad (2011). “I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman”, p.62, Chicago Review Press

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• People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

  William Faulkner

  Strength, Mean, Artist

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• Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

  George Herbert

  Years, Clothes, May

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.248

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• The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy.

  Gary Haugen

  Passion, Our World, Long

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• At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

  Heather O'Reilly

  Soccer, Fitness, Running

  Interview with Kim Tranell, www.seventeen.com. September 14, 2011.

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• 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, Needs, Lasts

  "Marathon". Song by Neil Peart, October 29, 1985.

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• The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom.
  In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many. We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to belief in the goodness of people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Inspiration, Long

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• 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, Band, Virtue

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• 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

  Life, Religious, Courage

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.252, Routledge

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• Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole man, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth and helps man to achieve that end to which all others must be subservient, the service and praise of his Creator.

  Pope Pius XII

  Sports, Communication, Character

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• But if we can learn to fall more in love with the Lord and trust Him in the middle of every storm, we build our endurance to keep running the race.

  Kari Jobe

  Running, Fall, Race

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• Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Speak, Conquer, Endure

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• Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)

  Joseph Heller

  Joseph Heller (1974). “Something Happened”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Christopher McDougall

  Animal, Thinking, Naked

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• Since ... 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the faithful to enter it by any other way, unless they come through the narrow gate of trials and tribulations, the divine oracle rightly commands us, saying: 'Strive to enter by the narrow door' (Lk. 13:24). Again He says, 'By your endurance you will gain your souls' (Lk. 21:19), and, 'Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of heaven' (Acts 14:22).

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Doors, Heaven

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