Conan O'Brien Quotes

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

All the things you do, even the shows that don't work, are as much work, but you learn more from the things that are difficult.

Thinking about my career, nothing ever came easy for me.

Struggle is the best teacher.

I know competition is there, and it can come my way by new, fresh faces that are around or are coming up. It pushes me to work hard. I know if I don't work hard, I will be left behind. So, I continue to work hard.

We all would like to struggle like Tiger is struggling.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run... Let yourself fail... And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?

Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to write because you hadn't broken in yet, you hadn't really hit your stride yet. What I found out paradoxically is that the next script you write doesn't get easier because you wrote one before…each one gets harder by a factor of 10.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

Enterprise is better than ease.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

They never said winning was easy.

Only the impossible is worth the effort.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

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

Set impossible challenges. Then catch up with them.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

It is going to be tough if you look for the easy way out because very rarely is there an easy way out. There is nothing that replaces hard work.