Best 627 quotes in «endurance quotes» category

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

I'm interested in endurance. People persist in the face of the most excruciating hardships.

Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness.

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.

It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.

I was rejected many times. I cried. I was told that female actors are replaceable in films because they just stand behind a guy anyway. I'm still used to being paid - like most actresses around the world - a lot less than the boys. We're told we're too provocative or that being sexy is our strength, which it can be, and it is, but that's not the only thing we have. But women have incredible endurance and incredible strength. Your ability to deal with it is within you.

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

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

I would hope that my readers feel a sense of awe at the quality of human endurance, at the endurance of love in the face of a variety of difficulties; that the quotidian life is not always easy, and is something worthy of respect.

Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

Many dedicated endurance athletes don’t need to be told what to do – they need to be told what not to do.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

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.

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

Not only is [a half marathon] a good test for the marathon, it is also good for those who feel they were just getting going in a 10K and are physically and mentally primed to go further. A half marathon is a good test of your endurance, without the physical punishment of going the full 26.2 miles. More so even than the 10K, it will teach you about patience, pacing, and how to negotiate a wider range of physical and emotional cycles.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance.

People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.