Christopher McDougall Quotes

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

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.

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.’ (Nykyrian)

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.

Suffer all, and conquer all.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

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

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

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

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

ignore the pain, play through it.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

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

You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

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.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

The child endures all things.

I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.