Bob Parsons Quotes

Anything worth having is going to be hard

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.

Getting to the top is not so easy; staying there is more difficult.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

You don't get this opportunity many times in life to compete against the best in the world every night. I certainly didn't expect to have 10 or 11 years of chances at it, so I don't want to take that for granted.

As a champion, you always want challenges.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

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

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

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

Anything worthwhile is tough.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

You just go out and compete and try to earn whatever you can. I'm looking to get better every single day I set foot on this field.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.