#endurance

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. ↗

— Mary Garden

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

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Use your brain, not your endurance. ↗

— Peter Thomson

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The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end. ↗

— Tahir Shah

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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

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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement. ↗

— Aberjhani

#change #endurance #faith #inspirational #inspiring-quotes

The sky is not my limit...I am. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#limits #persistence #quotes #self #sky

Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality. ↗

— Kilian Jornet

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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#life-and-living #pain #problems #scarlett-o-hara #life