Dean Karnazes Quotes

Everything's been a struggle for me.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

No Victory Without Suffering

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

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 work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

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.

No cross no crown.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

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

I struggled for so many years.

When you are going through hell, don't stop.

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

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

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

Suffer all, and conquer all.

I'm out there doing the best that I can, My lip is cut and I'm still playing.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

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

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.