Charles Stanley Quotes

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

If you want to do something that requires willpower - like going for a run after work - you have to conserve your willpower muscle during the day.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.

Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path---ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

You can and you must expect suffering.