Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

Everything that's worth making has to involve some sort of pain.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

It is very easy to forget how much of a pain training is when you have a dog for so long, but trust me, it's not as easy and quick as we all hope.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

No cross no crown.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Reform without pain is impossible.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

Sometimes it's hard. I'm not going to lie. It's tough. You feel like you're killing yourself, and you're giving it all you've got, and you're just not seeing it.

Caring is tough.

It's quite rare that you find something that you can quite literally have an absolute ball doing, as well as the tough stuff and the difficult stuff and the pain.

Entering politics would be like donning a crown of thorns.

Everyone has some sort of struggle.

To be a player is so difficult.

My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

No Victory Without Suffering

If it doesn't hurt, it wasn't a big deal.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.