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• Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.

  Bryan Procter

  Light, Sorrow, Leafs

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• God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

  Francois Fenelon

  Knowledge, Perfect, People

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• To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

  Ayn Rand

  Teaching, College, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.83, Penguin

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• I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Running, Ideas

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• I horse ride. I find it is the best way to maintain my fitness and stay physical. I have to practise anyway for my equestrian front. I do dressage and schooling too. I also do physical training where I work on my neck and upper body strength. Racing is a high endurance sport and you are in the car for a long time so this area is crucial.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Horse, Car

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• They are both all over physical sports that require being focused, accurate and having good strength. They are both fast with big consequences if things go wrong, so I have to be alert and aware at all times. With racing there is much more endurance and technical skill.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Skills, Racing

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.

  Yvonne Prinz

  Home, Camping, Tests

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• As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

  Akhenaton

  Men, Hunger And Thirst, Camels

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• I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

  Larry King

  Health, Feel Better, Energy

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• Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

  John Lubbock

  Character, Heroism, Noble

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• It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.

  Rick Joyner

  Rewards, Scripture, Faithfulness

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• Your body's ability to function as a clean and efficient channel is limited by stiffness, lack of strength, and lack of endurance. Your mind's ability is limited by the way it thinks about itself, by the way you think about you. The process of yoga is one of undoing the obstructions and limitations in your body and mind that inhibit the free flow of creative life force.

  Erich Schiffmann

  Yoga, Thinking, Creative

  Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That's fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one

  Kristiane Backer

  Angel, Long, Might

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• With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Athlete, Simple, Decision

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Long, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.231, Algora Publishing

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• For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Self, Ideas, Development

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.87, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Quality, Fortitude

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The history of Henry Esmond, esq”, p.50

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• Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Cells, Soul, Patient

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• Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue.But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue.

  Len Smith

  Determination, Mind, Quality

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• The master who loved most of all, endured the most and proved his love by his endurance.

  Hugh B. Brown

  His Love, Masters

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• All the great persons of the world, whatever had been their mission in life, proved their greatness by this one quality: endurance. The enduring personality is like a ship that can stand storms and winds under all conditions, the ship that saves itself and others. Such blessed personalities, showing the strength of God have been called the saviors of humanity.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Blessed, Greatness, Wind

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• It's always harder than you think to make a good film. Feature films are a hell of a marathon to say the least. It's kind of your endurance. How much can I push? How much do I care? How much time it takes is a nice reminder.

  Shaul Schwarz

  Nice, Thinking, Care

  Source: collider.com

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• I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Mean, Play, Skills

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• Doing the long endurance stuff seems to have given me the strength to sustain the speed. I think my body is just a lot stronger (thanks to the marathon)... By increasing the long runs, I found that does not take anything away from the speed but increases the strength on the track.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

  Gene Hackman

  Successful, Luck, Actors

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