William Barclay Quotes
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
William Barclay
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Caitlyn Jenner
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
Victor Garber
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale
I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.
Nate Diaz
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
Barbara Kingsolver
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Kuang
What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
Naomi Campbell
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.
Taisen Deshimaru
Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.
Laura Riding
When sorrow is deepest...then the surface crust is pierced, and consolation wells up, and all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.
Rabindranath Tagore
My school career was absolutely crucial to me. As an endurance athlete, some of the most important years are maybe when you are 16, 17, and 18. For me, getting that right was very important, and my school allowed me to do that.
Alistair Brownlee
