Bruce Cockburn Quotes

You have to fight for the things you want.

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

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

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.

There have been plenty of stories of people who go through adversity and had a bump in the road. The guys who persevere and continue to work hard, it turns out OK for them.

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.

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.

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices.

You win the fight by fighting.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

Walls don't fall without effort.

School is not easy for kids and football wasn't easy for me... but if it's something you truly believe in, it's something you've got to fight for and be willing to do what you need to do make it work.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

It isnt enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.