Endurance Quotes
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.
In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.
The master who loved most of all, endured the most and proved his love by his endurance.
Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
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.
We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.
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.
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.
Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.
She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.
The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.
For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance.
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.
I'd always had an interest of pushing my limits and was intrigued by endurance.
The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.
I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America.
To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.
Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.
Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.
They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.
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.
To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.
Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue.But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue.
For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.