Eknath Easwaran Quotes

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

No gains without pains.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

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.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

I've worked really hard, but it's definitely not been easy.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

Every medal I have won is a story of a difficult struggle.

I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

Struggles are what made everything worth while.

I have struggled hard to attain this fame.

Every step of my career was hard work.

Actors who are not accepted are the ones who have to put in the extra effort to get somewhere in their careers. But once you achieve that, everything becomes easier.

Everything I've gotten, I've had to work twice as hard to earn.

It's not like everything was given to me. I had to really work hard for it and earn it.

You have to work your way up the ladder just like everybody else. Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

It's never just about talent, it's about a lot more than that.

There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.

I think at the end of the day, winning is very difficult.