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

Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.
Gerard Arpey

Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.
Jeff Gannon

Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!
Jaime Hernandez

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
Martin Landau

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Ross Perot

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.
Dustin Hoffman

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.
Bo Bennett

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
Edmund H. North

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
Thomas Sydenham

Growth is a painful process.
Wilma Mankiller

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.
Derek Jacobi

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
Randall Terry

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred de Musset

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
Frederick William Robertson

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
Frantz Fanon