Endurance

Endurance is the ability to sustain over time. Endurance invokes not only tolerance and perseverance, but also loyalty, quality, and priority. That which endures receives our effort and energy on a regular basis. That which was built carefully and tended meticulously is more likely to endure, as are those characteristics we value enough to model and teach. Endurance often requires tolerating discomfort, and may call on us to reach for resources and stamina we are not certain we possess. Endurance means that we remain steadfast even under scrutiny, monotony, and hardship.