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• True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.

  Amy Harmon

  Life, Rocks, Wind

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• There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.

  Paul the Apostle

  Limits, Faces

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• Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

  Lord Byron

  Inequality

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.997, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Journey, Effort, Rewards

  Ingrid Betancourt (2010). “Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Freedom, America

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• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Skills, America, Use

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

  Nick Willis

  Sports, Sweet, Track

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• Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Silence, Sorrow

  'Giotto's Tower' (1866)

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• When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

  Paul Shepard

  Running, Heart, Men

  Paul Shepard (1973). “The tender carnivore and the sacred game”

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• Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Passion, Two

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Work, Engineering

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• The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Numbers, Vices, Virtue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.174

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• when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.

  Dhani Jones

  Sports, Football, Book

  "Bengals LB Jones proves to be a true Renaissance man". Interview with Michael Fabiano, www.nfl.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.

  Phil Ochs

  Feet, People, Sitting

  Song: Fifty Mile Hike

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• Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

  Paul Shepard

  Horse, Distance, Men

  Paul Shepard (2011). “The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game”, p.114, University of Georgia Press

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• It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Pain, Not Giving Up

  Attributed to Emil Zatopek in "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger"), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, August 8, 2008.

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• I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing.

  John F. Kennedy

  Energy, Would Be, Havens

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

  Paul Shepard

  Horse, Men, Years

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• I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.

  Johnny Kelly

  Boys, Years, Faces

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• The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.

  Paul Shepard

  Hunters, Humans, Physiology

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• 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.

  Clarence DeMar

  Four, Fifty, Six

  Clarence DeMar (2016). “Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running”, p.143, BookBaby

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• Why couldn't Pheidippides have died at 20 miles?

  Frank Shorter

  Miles, Died

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• In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

  Jeff Gordon

  Strong, Nascar Racing, Able

  Time, Volume 171, 2008.

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• It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Athlete, Difficult

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Trying, Different

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