Dallas Willard Quotes

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

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

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.

Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.

In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

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

The right way is the hard way.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.

Anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

Struggle is part of the journey.

The best way out is always through.

To the stars through thorns.