Whoopi Goldberg Quotes

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.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

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.

The child endures all things.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

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

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.

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

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

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

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

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

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.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

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.

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