My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
~By Bill Rodgers ~
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
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.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
~By Virgil ~
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Endurance is patience concentrated.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.
~By Arthur Lydiard ~
Use your brain, not your endurance.
~By Peter Thomson ~
Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.
~By Annie Smith Peck ~
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
~By William Faulkner ~
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
~By Djuna Barnes ~
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
~By Chester Irving Barnard ~
You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
~By Janet Jackson ~
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.
~By Sanaa Lathan ~
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
~By William Barclay ~
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~By John Ruskin ~
Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
~By Lord Byron ~
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.
~By Thomas Mann ~
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.
~By Mary Garden ~
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
~By James Anthony Froude ~
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
~By George F. Kennan ~
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
~By Virgil ~
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.
~By Tom Cruise ~
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
~By Nelson Mandela ~
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
~By Michael Novak ~
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