Science has confirmed what athletes have always believed: that there's more in thereβif you're willing to believe it.
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.
Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
I top up my endurance with running and cycling because in a race, your heart rate is up at 150, so we have to train at that level.
Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.
I think every facet of running has its benefits towards a starting pitcher. I mean, you're explosive off the mound and yet you've got to have endurance.
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
I don't like going to the gym. My biggest focus is the neck and endurance. I wear this 'Fifty Shades of Grey' harness, with a resistance trainer pulling against it.