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Endurance Quotes
"Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship."
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"Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you."
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"Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we're running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we're running from are the very things we should be running to."
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"Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead."
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"Love has never been conquered, not even by the greatest army."
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"You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too."
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"There are hard days to live. And sometimes they will be just a few, and sometimes they will seem endless. And eventually you'll come to understand that we've all been there before - or more than likely are going there now. And maybe that idea will make it easier for you, and maybe it won't. But there will still be hard days to live, and you will still have to find your way through them."
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"I will not move an inch, I've become an anvil to endure every act of striking."
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"A stone, no matter how small, resists the wind."
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"Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race."
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"Your voice may not be loud today or be heard today, but make sure you are still standing on your feet."
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"Being broken open by the storm is your only hope."
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"A certain readiness to perish is not so very rare, but it is seldom that you meet men whose souls, steeled in the impenetrable armour of resolution, are ready to fight a losing battle to the last, the desire of peace waxes stronger as hope declines, till at last it conquers the very desire of life. Which of us here has not observed this, or maybe experienced something of that feeling in his own person - this extreme weariness of emotions, the vanity of effort, the yearning for rest?"
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"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue."
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"Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct."
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"Patience brings perseverance."
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"This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe?"
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"I walked without breaks, slept through nights without waking, inhumanly smooth " a small machine."
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"On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish."
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"During my worst timeson the park benchesin the jailsor living withwhoresI always had this certaincontentment-I wouldn't call ithappiness-it was more of an innerbalancethat settled forwhatever was occuringand it helped in thefactoriesand when relationshipswent wrongwith thegirls.it helpedthrough thewars and thehangoversthe backalley fightsthehospitals.to awaken in a cheap roomin a strange city andpull up the shade-this was the craziest kind ofcontentmentand to walk across the floorto an old dresser with acracked mirror-see myself, ugly,grinning at it all.what matters most ishow well youwalk through thefire."
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"Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly."
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"The true test of a warrior is how your 'stance' holds up after any 'circumstance'. Meaning, even after the stormiest weather, a true warrior will still reflect the brilliant rays of the magnificent sun through both his or her eyes. You may get hit by sudden lightning or take severe beatings from the cruel wind, but you will always get back up and stand strong on your feet again, soak in the sunlight, and be prepared to get hit by even the most merciless hail - time and time again."
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"Life demands discomfort and pain."
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"I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty."
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"You must endure willingly for the fulfillment dreams."
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"Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind; in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob."
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"Delayed gratification is to have a strong faith in the laws of nature and the principles of God."
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