Marya Hornbacher Quotes

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

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.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

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

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

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

Be strong-be strong in the discipline of self. How many otherwise good men squander their strength and dissipate their will and literally destroy their lives because they have not the power of self-discipline.

One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.