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• When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

  Nancy Werlin

  Dream, Real, Miracle

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• To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

  Ben Jonson

  Life, Dream, Struggle

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• And I'm still alive. That's what I have to focus on. Because I want to live. Even now I can't let myself give up. And that's something I didn't know about myself before - that I have such dogged determination and strength. That I can be completely focused on a goal and work long past what I thought my endurance was, when I have to.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Determination, Giving Up, Past

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• As you think, you shall become

  Bruce Lee

  Thinking

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• Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Men, Yesterday

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

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• Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

  Livy

  Bears, Familiar

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIII, section 3,

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• When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free.

  David Walliams

  Fun, Swimming, Guilt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

  Louise Erdrich

  Adventure, Men, Misery

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• There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.

  Zicheng Hong

  Fall, Feelings, Taoism

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• A lack of endurance is one of the greatest causes of defeat, especially in prayer.

  Dutch Sheets

  Prayer, Causes, Defeat

  Dutch Sheets (2016). “Intercessory Prayer: How God Can Use Your Prayers to Move Heaven and Earth”, p.14, Baker Books

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• If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm for moving and breathing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Block, Moving, Breathing

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• Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beer, Drunk, Important

  Charles Bukowski (1984). “Barfly: the continuing saga of Henry Chinaski”, Paget Pr

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• It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our own virtue but 'it is the Lord who lifts up those who were laid low' (Ps. 145:8). It is not application to reading but 'it is the Lord who gives light to the blind' (Ps. 145:8). It is not our cautiousness but 'it is the Lord who protects the stranger' (Ps. 145:9). It is not our endurance but 'it is the Lord who raises or gives support to the fallen' (Ps. 144:14).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Reading, Light

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.95, Paulist Press

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• It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Determination, Bridges

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• And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

  Epictetus

  Courage, Greatness, Bears

  Epictetus (2012). “Discourses (Books 1 and 2)”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• As a healer, the first thing to tell every patient is to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing means no endurance, no patience.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Healing, Mean, Breathing

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• The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Resistance, Bears

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

  John Milton

  Men, Sides, Toil

  John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.327, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, California, Desert

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.116, Penguin

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• Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.

  Swami Paramananda

  Evil, Triumph, May

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• The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

  Euripides

  Fate, Men, Fool

  William Arrowsmith, Euripides (1954). “The conversion of Herakles: an essay in Euripidean tragic structure”

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• If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Beautiful, Children, Heart

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• Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a paintbrush. And with 'To'hajiilee,' the final episode of Breaking Bad she'll ever direct, she has painted her masterpiece. Under the unblinking eye of her relentless camera, this was television not as entertainment but as endurance. It was agonizing, nauseating, unbearable. I loved every minute but hated every second. I couldn't wait for it to be over but I never wanted it to end. And I especially never wanted it to end like that.

  Andy Greenwald

  Eye, Waiting, Silence

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• No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

  Lysander Spooner

  Power, Government, People

  Lysander Spooner (1852). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.19

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• Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection!
  Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
  Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike,
  Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Strong, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.112

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