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Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it's not really a sprint. -- Neil Peart
I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much. -- Bruce Dickinson
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. -- John Major
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. -- John Irving
Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport. -- Samantha Stosur
I got the stamina. I can close. -- Michael Phelps
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. -- B. C. Forbes
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays -- E. B. White
Running and science draw on similar traits - stamina, ambition, patience, and the ability to overcome limits. -- Wolfgang Ketterle
The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. -- Ken Doherty
You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina. -- Roger Daltrey
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. -- Tahir Shah
Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity. -- Jim Brown
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. -- Billie Burke
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter. -- B. C. Forbes
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on. -- Anne Lamott
To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina. -- Caroline Myss
I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well. -- Harriet Walter
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse. -- Neil Peart
This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen. -- Tim Maleeny
We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength. -- Oswald Chambers
Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction. -- Caroline Myss
You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror"¦ But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace. -- John Irving
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it. -- Margaret Heffernan
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. -- Robbie Coltraine
I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life. -- Salma Hayek
I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience. -- Hillary Clinton
I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina. -- Jennifer Lopez
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. -- Martin Amis
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. -- Henry Rollins
I've got a lot of stamina and I enjoy people, so having lots of people around doesn't freak me out. -- Shirley Manson
George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again. -- Francis Ford Coppola
When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me. -- Cesar Millan
There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that. -- Jane McGonigal
What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player. -- Tom Heinsohn
I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange. -- Cherie Lunghi
These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell. -- Jose Canseco
The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine. -- Wendy O. Williams
Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes. -- Viswanathan Anand
You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is? -- Adam Green
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina. -- Walter Kirn
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals. -- David A. Bednar
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way. -- Kevin Spacey
You lose the speed before the stamina. -- Haile Gebrselassie
Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina. -- Susan Sontag
You can ask my wife about my stamina, -- Steve Smith, Sr.
Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina. -- Christopher Lee
I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain't-got kind of stamina. -- Oprah Winfrey
To be president of America, you need tremendous stamina. -- Donald Trump
I don't believe that Hillary Clinton has the stamina. -- Donald Trump
Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina. -- Richard Armitage
Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station. -- Robbie Coltraine
Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way. -- Feist
There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all. -- Aleksandar Hemon
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina. -- Abraham Verghese
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. -- Neil Peart
Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Our goal should be health and stamina. -- Emme
My grandpa showed me how to build stamina onset behind the scenes on 'Twixt.' -- Gia Coppola
I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health... -- Eric Reeves
When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina. -- Lee Haney
Hillary Clinton doesn't have the strength or the stamina to make America great again. Believe me. -- Donald Trump
I said [Hillary Clinton] doesn't have the stamina. And I don't believe she does have the stamina. -- Donald Trump
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. -- William Hazlitt
The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really. -- Oscar Robertson
to maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner. -- Joan Rivers
It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina. -- Daniel Handler
There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline. -- Adriana Trigiani
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. -- Katherine Dunn
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith. -- B. C. Forbes
Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina. -- James C. Emlund
To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina. -- Roman Coppola
It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle. -- Golda Meir
Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy. -- Sidney Lumet
Learning that you have stamina is an excellent thing to know. If a project fails, I know I can pick myself up. -- Eddie Izzard
If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world. -- Joyce Meyer
The practice of being at ease also gives you the strength and stamina to pursue all that you find when you connect inward. -- Tara Stiles
How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval. -- Lauren Bacall
It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination. -- Alexander Gordon Smith
Mental stamina - determination - is a quality of the mind shattered by fatigue.But physical stamina - endurance - is built upon fatigue. -- Len Smith
Anybody who believes in something without reservation believes that this thing is right and should be, has the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them. -- Golda Meir
The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle. -- Lesley Visser
He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts. -- Blackie Sherrod
I spent four and a half hours debating Donald Trump in three debates, which I think should put to rest any questions about my stamina. -- Hillary Clinton
Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land. -- William Pitt
In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal. -- Leon Uris
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that. -- Anna Deavere Smith
It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges. -- Alexandre Aja
Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb. -- Samuel Johnson
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I have a road bike and a mountain bike, and I tend to use them both a lot. They help you keep your balance and your stamina. -- Andy Serkis
More like Cross blew your circuits during one of his sexathons. Still can't get over that man's stamina. Wish he'd swing my way and wear me out. -- Sylvia Day
I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power. -- Joe Calzaghe
Breaks are good because you need breaks to be more creative. It's hard to come up with that creativity and the stamina for that creativity, all the time. -- Anna Silk
In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months. -- Alan Rickman
I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. -- Daniel Radcliffe
One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack. -- Orison Swett Marden
You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change. -- Eddie Vedder
It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost! -- Vladimir Kramnik
Defending a free and open global Internet requires a broad-based global movement with the stamina to engage in endless - and often highly technical - national and international policy battles. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands. -- Charleszetta Waddles
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 reward for stamina. -- Ilka Chase
Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon. -- Kamala Harris
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse. -- Nancy Milford
If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform. -- Holt McCallany
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Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus. -- Peter McWilliams
If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need. -- Terry Gilliam
[Donald Trump] tried to switch from looks to stamina. But this is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers. -- Hillary Clinton
What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book. -- Katy Lederer
We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire. -- Karyn Kusama
Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina. -- Parminder Nagra
I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. -- Philip Roth
That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity. -- Stefan Kieszling
The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me. -- Wladimir Klitschko

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