Endurance
- The ability or strength to continue or last, especially despite fatigue, stress, or other adverse conditions.
Woody Allen said, “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Indeed. And I might add the corollary, “Eighty percent of success is just hanging in there.” One simply must be able to hang on when things look dark in order to accomplish anything of lasting value. And that is all I have to say about that. Following are excellent illustrations of people staying present when it would be easier to bail, giving their best, hoping for triumph.
Examples of Endurance in Film
- 50/50
- Apollo 13
- Cliffhanger
- Contact
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
- Everything is Illuminated
- Frozen River
- G.I. Jane
- Gandhi
- Gladiator
- Harold and Maude
- In America
- Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Platoon
- Rocky
- Rudy
- Salt
- Schindler’s List
- Sholem Aleichim: Laughing in the Darkness
- The African Queen
- The Big Year
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Edge
- The Fighter
- The Help
- The Hurricane
- The In-Laws (1979)
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Pianist
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- Warrior
- Watership Down
- Without Limits
“endurance.” Dictionary.com Unabridged. 18 Dec. 2011. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/endurance>.
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