E. W. Howe Quotes

To the stars through thorns.

There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Still humping the American Dream

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

A smooth life is not a victorious life.

Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

The road to success is long and up hill all the way