Charles Kingsley Quotes

My mother says that I have abnormal capacity to tolerate pain. It's the first step to win over adversaries.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

I can play with pain. It doesn't bother me.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

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

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I can handle pain.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.