Thornton Wilder Quotes

Quality is easy to talk but hard to make.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Nobody said being platinum was easy.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

If it were easy, it would have no value.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

Easy doesn't do it.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

Repeating is harder than anything else.

I didn't want to do something that was easy for me.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.