Outlasting Quotes

• Winning means outlasting everyone else.

  Mason Cooley

  Mean, Winning

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

  Eric Alterman

  Mad, Return, Hell

  "Who speaks for me?". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

  Lance Armstrong

  Running, Athlete, Suffering

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.18, Random House

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• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Athlete, Caring

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• Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

  Edward Hoagland

  Health, Sleep, Silence

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

  John Green

  War, Leaving, Legacy

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

  Eric Alterman

  Hysteria, Mad, Political

  "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.

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• To think of enduring to the end as ‘hanging in there,’ doing one’s duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is more than outlasting and surviving, though it includes those qualities. We are called upon, as was the Prophet Joseph, to ‘endure it well,’ gracefully, not grudgingly. (D&C 121:8.) We are also told that we must ‘endure in faith.’ (D&C 101:35.) These dimensions of enduring are important to note. Likewise, we are asked to endure ‘valiantly.’ (D&C 121:29.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Thinking, Enduring To The End, Important

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• There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Thinking, Historical

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

  James A. Garfield

  Passion, Justice, Owners

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• Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

  Seth Godin

  Regret, Long, Choices

  "Sooner or later, the critics move on". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 24, 2015.

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• A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

  Billy Graham

  Humor, Adversity, Overcoming

  Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam

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• I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

  John Darnielle

  Thinking, Singers, Interest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Knowledge, Civilization, Literature

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.460, Open Road Media

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• Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Dream, Boys, Pyramids

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