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• A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

  Christian D. Larson

  Men, Creative, Energy

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• It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Wife, Energy

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• People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

  Dorothy Parker

  Men, People, Exceed

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Determination, Skills, Classical Music

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Tumbling, Surf, Patient

  Neal A. Maxwell (1991). “Men and Women of Christ”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as intense, as pressurized, as hard for short periods: But the Tour does on day after day after day. It's the only race in the world where you have to get a haircut halfway through.

  Chris Boardman

  Sports, Cycling, Race

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• David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming together in one Person, that by one and the same conception and birth might spring our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom was present both true Godhead for the performance of mighty works and true Manhood for the endurance of sufferings.

  Pope Leo I

  Christian, Jesus, Spring

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• Do not be surprised if you fall every day and do not surrender. Stand your ground bravely and you may be sure that your guardian angel will respect your endurance. A fresh, warm wound is easier to heal than those that are old, neglected, and festering, and that need extensive treatment, surgery, bandaging and cauterization. Long neglect can render many of them incurable. However, all things are possible with God

  John Climacus

  Christian, Fall, Angel

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.130, Paulist Press

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• Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Mean, Athlete, Athletic

  "CrossFit: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" by Mark Rippetoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2013.

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• With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Long, Ghost, Enough

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• I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Trying, Energy, Way

  "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.

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• Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

  Jules Verne

  Solitude, Isolation, Painful

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.361, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of the truth. It teaches those too much concerned with a life in the flesh to deepen themselves through such sufferings instead of pursuing ease and comfort; and it makes the flesh's natural weakness in the endurance of suffering a foundation for overwhelming spiritual power. For the natural weakness of the saints is precisely such a foundation, since the Lord has made their weakness stronger than the proud devil.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Evil

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• Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Inquiring, Mates, Young

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• We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Strong, Helping Others, Brave

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• We runners talk about having fun but I don't think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution, we watch our diets and monitor our pace. We are ascetics who talk, unconvincingly, of the bracing enjoyment of self-abuse.

  Peter Sagal

  Fun, Believe, Exercise

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• Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Art, Roots, Competition

  "Armed Martial Arts of Japan: Swordsmanship and Archery" by G. Cameron Hurst, G. Cameron Hurst, 3rd, G. Hurst I, (p. 4), 1998.

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• The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, People, Liberty

  Lysander Spooner (1850). “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves”, p.30

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• Healthy foods are great, but it's important to keep your body active. Your muscles only get stronger and build more endurance for everyday things if you're moving and get the blood pumping. Exercising stimulates certain brain chemicals and can put you in a better mood!

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Moving, Exercise, Everyday Things

  "Jenna Answers Your Fitness Qs!". www.seventeen.com. March 23, 2012.

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• Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage and endurance that has been yours through the long, beautiful aeons of your life story.

  Joanna Macy

  Beautiful, Long, Stories

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• I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beautiful, Sports, Smart

  "The String Theory" by David Foster Wallace, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2008.

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• Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder.

  Tracy Anderson

  Strong, Athlete, Two

  "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Inspiring, Mother, Jobs

  Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.310, Open Road Media

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• Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last." -The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold--your hard-breathing point--during your endurance runs.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Distance, California

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.207, Profile Books

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• It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

  Charles Dickens

  Boys, Thinking, Years

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Great Expectations”, p.343, Cosimo, Inc.

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