Chaim Potok Quotes

Beginnings are always hard.

As we see in life, change is hard. Even if you genuinely want it and make the effort, sometimes it's hard to get it.

Some things are difficult to adapt to.

I think with all records, it's the starting out that is the difficult stage.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle

Change does not come easy.

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

All beginnings are very troublesome things.

Looking back, it wasn't easy when the news broke that I was leaving Dortmund, but that's behind me now.

All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

We need to make a change while there’s still time, it is hard, and at times I struggle trying to reveal mine.

Going back to something is harder than you think.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

The journey towards success is not always easy or upwards.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Being a woman is hard work.

The right way is the hard way.

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.