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• 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, Looks, Sometimes

  "Like Mother Like Daughter: PW Talks with Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Scottoline Serritella". Interview with Linda M. Castellitto, www.publishersweekly.com. October 11, 2010.

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• We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Sweet, Diversity

  Michel de Montaigne (1963). “Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings”

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• I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

  Alberto Salazar

  Softball, Running, Doubt

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• Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Patience, Sorrow, Masters

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• Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Success, Basketball, Sports

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• Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd . . . Mr Brynner is, quite simply, The King.

  Frank Rich

  Kings, Acting, Odd

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• Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Beautiful, Perseverance, Honesty

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• People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis. The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world.

  Ted Simon

  Journey, Goal, People

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• I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.

  Lance Armstrong

  Athlete, Years, Drug

  "Lance Armstrong could lose Tour titles over alleged doping violations" by William Fortheringham, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.

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• 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, Wish

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• A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Should Have

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• I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.

  Denton Cooley

  Basketball, Sports, Thinking

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Perseverance, Fate, Men

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

  William Shakespeare

  Block, Past, Benedick

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes”, p.49

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• Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.

  Wes Fesler

  Adversity, Goal, Force

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• The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense.

  Wes Fesler

  Past, Pleasure, Tense

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• Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

  Ernest Hemingway

  Firsts, Endure

  Ernest Hemingway, A. E. Hotchner, Albert J. DeFazio (2005). “Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A.E. Hotchner”, p.12, University of Missouri Press

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• It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

  Ernest Renan

  Christian, Jesus, Taken

  Ernest Renan (2015). “The Life of Jesus: Works of Renan”, 谷月社

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• I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.

  Jennifer Pharr Davis

  Limits, Pushing, Interest

  "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• 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, Peers, Genius

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• Tendulkar can now rightly lay claim to the title of being the greatest batsman in cricket history. And if some people argue about his greatness then there are certainly no arguments about his being the most prolific, he is a complete run machine and his 50th Test hundred is a testimony of his endurance and passion for the sport

  Rashid Latif

  Sports, Running, Passion

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• 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, Patient, Never Change

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.694, Library of America

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• 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, Doctrine, Jam

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

  W. H. Auden

  Stupid, Long, People

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• As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.

  Philip Sidney

  Growing Up, Exercise, Men

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.144

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