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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful will win.
View quotes by Roger Bannister

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
View quotes by George Eliot

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!
View quotes by Lord Byron

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing
View quotes by Maurice Maeterlinck

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
View quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

It was very painful, I was struggling to walk so there was no way I could have bowled [2005 Ashes]
View quotes by Simon Jones

I've never considered myself any kind of heart throb - It sounds painful!
View quotes by Gavin DeGraw

One thing I suffered from as a kid was I never felt adversity. The sense of being immune was, ludicrously, a painful one.
View quotes by Diane Arbus

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
View quotes by Sir Arthur Helps

I had to double the dose of my anti-inflammatories the last few days because my shoulder was painful, and it's probably I just had a very bad reaction to that
View quotes by Justine Henin-Hardenne

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humour in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
View quotes by Bill Cosby

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep (The Dunciad)
View quotes by Alexander Pope

They took me to this health club and shoved hot wax over my chest. It was the most painful experience I've ever had. [On a full body wax for a new film]
View quotes by Paul Nicholls

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
View quotes by Jean De La Bruyere

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

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.
View quotes by Vincent Gallo

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
View quotes by Anais Nin

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
View quotes by Aldous Huxley

'What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become, except in dreams that blow in from out there bearing the fragrance of islands we have not yet sighted in our waking hours...' (David Malouf, An Imaginary Life, p.135)
View quotes by David Malouf



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