William Barclay Quotes
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
William Barclay
Quotes to Explore
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
Caitlyn Jenner
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
Victor Garber
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale
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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.
Nate Diaz
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
Barbara Kingsolver
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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.
Xun Kuang
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What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
Naomi Campbell
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Taisen Deshimaru
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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.
Laura Riding
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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.
Rabindranath Tagore
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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
