Dean Karnazes Quotes

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

It's really difficult to climb effortlessly.

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.

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

Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.

Labor is really going to hurt.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering.

Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

No cross no crown.

Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every time you move it hurts, that is a real battle.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

Everything that's worth making has to involve some sort of pain.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.