Charles Bukowski Quotes

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

It's never about the chemo; it's never about the cancer. It's all about what you're willing to put in to overcome whatever the obstacle is.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

More can I bear than you dare execute.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

Champions get up! When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something! Champions get up! Focus your mind, pull yourself together. If you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on! You are a champion. You are more than a conqueror. Keep the faith. Cry if you must. You are still here. God is not through with you yet. You were born to win. Champions get up! You are a champion. You have GREATNESS within you!

Learn to be difficult when it counts

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.