#endurance

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

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For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. ↗

— Virgil

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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 sky is not my limit...I am. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#limits #persistence #quotes #self #sky

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

#life #solitude #life

[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

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport. ↗

— Clara Hughes

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