Chuck Klein Quotes

A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.

I'm a real man. I can suffer.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I know a lot of people can recall tough times, and maybe are going through some tough times right now, but they don't last.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

I don't think that having a hard time is inherently negative. I think that it can make you a stronger person; it can be tough and painful, but it can make you grow.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

One thing I take pride in is that I never cracked and stopped playing hard. There's something to be said for that, because life doesn't always throw the best situations at you.

Life kicks you hard but you have to be a man to come back.

Our dad was an iron worker, a really tough guy. He raised us to be strong and stand up for ourselves. Whatever we want, we go and get it. Sometimes, you have to take it.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

Men had taken greater blows: that was what made a man a man. For did they not say that a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; that the silent tremor of pain down its body alone must tell of its suffering?

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.