William Barclay Quotes
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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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.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.
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. . . This is the high destiny of the sons of God, they who overcome, who are obedient to His commandments, who purify themselves even as He is pure. They are to become like Him; they will see Him as He is; they will behold His face and reign with Him in His glory, becoming like unto Him in every particular.
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Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back at you.
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Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!
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Viewers can't work or play while watching television; they can't read; they can't be out on the streets, falling in love with the wrong people, learning how to quarrel and compromise with other human beings. In short, they are asocial.
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Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
