Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me.

It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

My entire life, nothing's been easy. This is the way it ought to be.

I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

I'm sure you've felt this way along the way: Yes, I got to do what I wanted to do. But it was much harder than I thought it was going to be, and it continues to be. You never get to a place that is a place of rest. I think that's OK. It's not bad - life is hard work!

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job!

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

There's no such thing as an easy anything.

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

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

Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.