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Also: Stamina

Endurance is the ability to sustain over time, to call from ourselves renewed commitment and effort when we are confronted with challenges or hardship. 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 through criticism, monotony, and discouraging odds.


Endurance requires planfulness and balance, not just strength of will. Health and pacing often determine our ability to sustain. This means that we need to take care of ourselves if we care about the long term.

Endurance

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full 0f overcoming it.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefor all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. [...] And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
by Howard Zinn
Page Closing
Published by Beacon Press , November 30, 1995
http://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Neutral-Moving-Train/dp/0807070599
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Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.

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If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.

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Selected Works of Kedar Joshi
Kedar Joshi
"Quotations – General"
http://works.bepress.com/kedar_joshi/23/
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love"

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The Strength Of Love
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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Success is the process of having a wonderful experience going for, getting, and having what you want.

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http://geniuscatalyst.com/
Michael Neill
"There's no such thing as success"
http://geniuscatalyst.com/tipofthedaydb.php
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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"Nothing difficult is ever easy"

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On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to rest - and there resting, died.

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Puzzles and Essays from "The Exchange" by Charles R. Anderson
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Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

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"Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world, yea, even a place at the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith, maketh an anchor to the souls of men, which would make them sure and steadfast, always abounding in good works, being led to glorify God."

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The Book of Mormon
Book of Ether Chapter 12 verse 4
http://www.mormon.org
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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Mahatma Ghandi
"Proverb Zone"
http://www.proverb.taiwanonline.org/display.php?alphabet=Y&row=0
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

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Virgil
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/come_what_may-all_bad_fortune_is_to_be_conquered/345312.html
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

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John Ruskin
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/out_of_suffering_comes_the_serious_mind-out_of/295234.html
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Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

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Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
http://Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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Those who can bear all can dare all.

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Marquis De Vauvenargues
http://www.answers.com/topic/vauvenargues-marquis-de
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It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

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Sir Philip Sidney
http://www.answers.com/topic/philip-sidney
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A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.

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Edgar J. Mohn
http://www.answers.com/topic/stamina
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

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Ben Okri
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_most_authentic_thing_about_us_is_our_capacity/152953.html
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau
http://en.proverbia.net
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

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Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

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