#painful

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#effort #further #gets #himself #man

I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#get #happened #him #i #living

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. ↗

— August Strindberg

#because #demands #energy #every #evolution

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion. ↗

— Amy Grant

#compassion #difficult #difficult times #experience #filled

So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#basic #citizens #cut #governors #grappling

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned. ↗

— William Greider

#flop #learned #many #painfully #pensions

Saving was slow and painful. ↗

— William Christopher Handy

#saving #slow

I'm painfully middle class. ↗

— Valerie Harper

#i #middle #middle class #painfully

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#evil #good #good and evil #lesser #moral

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#before #bureaucratic #company #everything #exciting