Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Over the past six years I've had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

To the stars through thorns.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

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.

It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures - it’s inevitable. But unless the spirit of the last year, here and elsewhere in the country and around the globe, unless that continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.

No Victory Without Suffering

If He put tribulation before you and said He will give you patience by giving you a little trouble along the way, wouldn't you take a little trouble? You say, 'Lord, I want all my highways paved.' the Lord says, 'I'm sorry, I can't accommodate you. I'm going to let you run over some bumps occasionally, so you will have patience.' You do not like the bumps, but you like the patience, and if you want the patience, you will have to take the bumps. And what is patience but experience?

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.