Dean Karnazes Quotes

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Easy doesn't do it.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

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.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.

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.

You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

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

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

They never said winning was easy.

I don't like making my job easier. How are you accomplishing anything if there's no struggle? If I have to create a struggle that doesn't exist, I'll do that. Time and money constraints are a great way to do it.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.