QUOTE FOR THE DAY

 

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Dean Karnazes (1962 - ) is an American ultramarathon runner and author.

Most notable achievements include:

• Ran 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005

• Completed "The Relay", a 199-mile (320 km) run from Calistoga to Santa Cruz, eleven times

• Ran a marathon to the South Pole in −13 °F (−25 °C) temperatures without snowshoes in 2002

• Ran a marathon in each of the 50 states in 50 consecutive days in 2006

• Winner, Badwater Ultramarathon (135 miles (217 km) across Death Valley in 120 °F (49 °C) temperatures), 2004 (with five other top-10 finishes from 2000 to 2008)

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What he says above holds true not only for ultra marathoners but also for everyone for any task taken on and any challenge confronted, whether small or large.

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Winston Churchill said the same thing in a speech given in a visit to Harrow School on October 29, 1941. It included the following:

You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination. But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period — I am addressing myself to the School — surely from this period of ten months this is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished. All this tradition of ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated.

Very different is the mood today. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. But instead our country stood in the gap. There was no flinching and no thought of giving in; and by what seemed almost a miracle to those outside these Islands, though we ourselves never doubted it, we now find ourselves in a position where I say that we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer.

Hear the speech at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuIdG9-vZAs

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