We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.