It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calo….

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing..

Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance..

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a r….

They who in trouble untroubled are Will trouble trouble itself..

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God ….

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life..

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endur….

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve..

I'm 84 years old. Don't let the altar-boy face fool you..

All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communitie….

If you wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then you can get to the summit of your dream..

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar..

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something..

Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves ….

Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing..

Those who can bear all can dare all..

Cycling is such an endurance sport. I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties..

I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world..

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the….

Without patience, you will never conquer endurance..