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• I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

  Henry Adams

  Tired, Boredom, World

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.276, Harvard University Press

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• It's unfortunate we live in a society where "gay" is an insult. To some of these boys, who are from really red states and have families with military history, to be called gay is the worst thing imaginable, and that's used against them. It's really interesting that these are the people drawn into the tickling world. If the people drawn into competitive endurance tickling, even if they were straight, came from liberal, accepting backgrounds, the backlash of calling them gay wouldn't be a problem. But it's a problem because of where these people are from. That's really fascinating to me.

  David Farrier

  Military, Gay, Boys

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

  Mary Catherwood

  Stoicism

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.344, tredition

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• You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.

  Ida Tarbell

  Country, Suffering, Cheerful

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• Swimming is probably my main conditioning. It gives you a full-body workout. It builds endurance, builds your lungs strong, I mean you name it. And I like that the older you get, you try to find different ways to train besides just pounding and running every day.

  Vince Wilfork

  Running, Strong, Workout

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Character, Good Luck, Adversity

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852”, p.3

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• A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

  J. G. Holland

  Hands, Wealth, Lost

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• The United States of America are more of a concept than a historically evolved geographical conclusion, compared to European countries. I find this extremely interesting. Europe seems objectively more progressive and more civilized at a time when the U.S. is entering a regressive, oppressive, totalitarian era. You've got racial issues, the endurance of Puritanism, other seriously anachronistic religious fanaticisms, and it's all linked to conservatism. Despite all the unresolved deep-seated problems, the U.S. is still a country where it's less important where you come from than what you do.

  Josephine Meckseper

  Country, Religious, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• More can I bear than you dare execute.

  William Shakespeare

  Bears, Dare

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. 129

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• To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Sex, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance.

  Elmer Kelton

  Memories, Events, Limits

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• You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

  Lisa Gardner

  Fighting, Parenting, Thinking

  Lisa Gardner (2010). “Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel”, p.87, Bantam

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• It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance.

  Meg Cabot

  Attitude, Frustration, Might

  Meg Cabot (2008). “The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Struggle, Eye, Night

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,--sitting there now at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Work, Years

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• What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, People, Burden

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.264, Penguin

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• At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  The End Of The Day, Together, Bears

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

  Chris Heimerdinger

  Lasting Happiness, Lasting, Offspring

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• Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through the dark of the night, we will not see the glory of daybreak.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Dark, Night, Destiny

  Chin-Ning Chu (2010). “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Waiting, Patient

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• Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

  John C. Maxwell (2014). “Success: One Day at a Time”, p.65, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Perseverance is more than endurance."
  It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may only be exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered.

  Oswald Chambers

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Hero

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.124, Discovery House

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