Arnold Bennett Quotes

Nothing in life is more exhilarating than fighting for something larger than you.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

No cross no crown.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

You’ve got to put your life on the line to show that you are part of the struggle.

Every medal I have won is a story of a difficult struggle.

What I've seen and learnt from life is that when you give it your best, when you're in it at 100 percent, and you give it your blood, sweat and tears, something beautiful will come out of it.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me tobe doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.

My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious world. One that they were deeply committed to and deeply loved, but one that required a lot of hard work.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Sometimes my body is aching, but I always think, 'Why am I in this? Why do I love it so much?' That's what makes me persevere, that's what makes me keep on going.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.