Katha Pollitt Quotes

There is no gain without struggle.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

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

There is no progress without struggle.

Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

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

Anything worth having is going to be hard

Walls don't fall without effort.

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

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

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

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

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

The right way is the hard way.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.