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• The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to spend time to develop clarity of vision. What do you want your life to look like five, ten or fifteen years from now? Oftentimes, it's not so much a lack of discipline but a lack of vision.

  Rory Vaden

  Years, Discipline, Vision

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

  Neil Strauss

  Motivation, Thinking, Belief

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• In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

  Djuna Barnes

  Acceptance, Past, Age

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• Endure and save yourselves for happier times.

  Virgil

  Endure, Happier Times

  Virgil, Stanley Lombardo (2005). “Aeneid”, p.8, Hackett Publishing

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• The top fighters spar hard. They're really sparring for two reasons: One is to improve their technique, but the other, which is just as important, is to build endurance, toughness, and courage. They want to practice as realistically as possible so that when they go into a real fight, the transition isn't as jarring.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Real, Fighting, Practice

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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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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• For me, I'll always stand up for the disenfranchised, and I'm going to make a big point of that. I'm not a protest singer as such, you know? After the endurance course of the early 70s and 60s, I don't want to become one of them twats. But you got to learn to speak the truth.

  John Lydon

  Want, Singers, Speak

  Source: www.axs.com

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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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• It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fire, People, Energy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2399, Delphi Classics

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• I feel like my endurance is actually better. Especially trying to get down to 140, I was experiencing body cramps.

  Lamont Peterson

  Trying, Body, Cramps

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Traveling fast over complex technical terrain requires a high level of technical ability and the endurance to support it. These two quite divergent capabilities need to be developed over years of practice. Omitting either limits your potential.

  Steve House

  Two, Years, Practice

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Real, Son

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.361

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• He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.

  William Faulkner

  Humility, Men, Animal

  Francis Lee Utley, William Faulkner, Lynn Z. Bloom, Arthur F. Kinney (1971). “Bear, man, and God: eight approaches to William Faulkner's The bear”, Random House Inc

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• A plague of snow, fluffy and dry before it hardens and grips the trees, the walls, and the cars parked haphazardly everywhere. When I walk to the little market a few blocks away, it feels like a test of endurance.

  Henri Cole

  Wall, Block, Car

  "A Plague of Snow" by Henri Cole, www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2015.

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• 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.

  Kirsty Coventry

  Swimming, Race, Opposites

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• Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Military, Fighting, Pride

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• Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

  Adolf Hitler

  Strong, Military, Sacrifice

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Pain, Long Ago, Serenity

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• I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and Yorktown. For this reason I predict the civil war which is now at hand will be stubborn and of long duration.

  Sam Houston

  War, Hero, Hands

  Sam Houston (1943). “The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863: 1825-1863”

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• Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Heart, Israel, Skins

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

  Colum McCann

  Pain, People, Requirements

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.290, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a fistfight. Ultimately, trading is an exercise in self-mastery and endurance.

  Ralph Vince

  Exercise, Self, Psychology

  Ralph Vince (1992). “The Mathematics of Money Management: Risk Analysis Techniques for Traders”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Faith, God, Christian

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• 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.

  Matthew Quick

  Happiness, Real, Feel Good

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.217, Sarah Crichton Books

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• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Struggle

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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