John Milton Quotes

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

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

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

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

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

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.

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.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

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