A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

You have the power to realise your dream. If only you are willing and determined.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him.

— Julius Lester

Don’t be a victim of circumstances. Choose victory by gracious endurance.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not complain, pray for courage to endure the situation.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The power of waiting is gracious.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end.

— Israelmore Ayivor

Run the race of life with all perseverance and endurance.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If you feel like a nearly-drowned rat that’s been dragged through the mud, all twisted up inside your mother’s borrowed, prized quilt, having been tossed about by gale force winds that managed to entangle you in barbed wire one-thousand miles from your goal in the middle of a hot, barren nowhere void of any basic necessities―then congratulations! You’re no observer but an actual participant in the game of life! Stand up and keep living.

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The Existentially Preoccupied Long Distance RunnerSometimes I like to run so hard and for so longwith each mile I can feel the pain of my own awareness,my own heightened consciousness of what ails me,the ills of the world,the limitations of our existence,the losses we must endure,the superficial interactions.Sometimes I like to run so hard and for so longthat I can feel all of these feelings seep out of the pours of my own skin,the sweat cleansing my very being,my awareness of beauty heightened,the experience of joy possible,each mile, each minute, ridding me of these feelings,washing away the illusions,showing me the truth.Sometimes I like to run so hard and for so long…until finally I feel free…until finally I AM free….

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn