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Faster and faster they raced, but no one got hot or tired or out of breath.

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth...

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I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed...

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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I be...

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A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehan...

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ConfuciusThe Analects of Confucius: Bilingual Edition

Endurance is critical if you want to succeed spectacularly at anything God sets before you.

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Craig GroeschelDare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

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David HumeEssays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, eve...

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But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that o...

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Don't fear the gods,Don't worry about death;What is good is easy to get, andWhat is terrible is easy...

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EpicurusThe Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us i...

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Francis of AssisiThe Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treat...

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What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the peta...

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It is not so much what people suffer that makes the world mysterious; it is rather how much they mis...

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Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

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Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own.

Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear

Like infants, when they are born into the world, God's children are not born again in the full posse...

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J. C. RyleChristian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

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

He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yours...

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James JonesFrom Here to Eternity

I understand you.—You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.—For four months, Marianne, I have h...

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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When a...

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But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. D...

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In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold o...

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Jonathan Edwards (theologian)Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions: And Advice to Young Converts

A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon ...

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Joyce Carol OatesFoxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

God gave the day, God gave the strength.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm go...

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Marial and Uncle were no longer by his side, and they never would be again, but Salva knew that both...

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It’s just a thing. You deal with it." "As in, one damn thing after another?""Yes, very like.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're a...

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The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he...

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We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on an...

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All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my str...

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

So in order to accommodate the Pioneers who would begin arriving in a few weeks, the Arkitects sent ...

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True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're d...

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Neil StraussEmergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.

....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in...

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Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arro...

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Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the ar...

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Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the o...

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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no...

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply...

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Roald DahlThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companio...

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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to pu...

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In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not t...

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Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the hear...

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Stephen FryMoab Is My Washpot

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is ...

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Endurance is patience concentrated.

Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endura...

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That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encoura...

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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

It would be easy to call it quits. Occasionally I have these moments, not often. There is nothing to...

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Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be syste...

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William JamesTalks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a no...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...

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In the path of compassion our patience, resilience and endurance are often challenged. Sometimes we ...

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Compassion does not need any special preparation, place or time. You can start it anywhere and anyti...

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Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturi...

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All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness ...

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