Frank A. Clark Quotes

If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.

Easy doesn't do it.

Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.

It's not always the result. It's the journey to get to the result.

When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?

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

It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it.

But all of this success came at the end of a long climb.

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something that needs to be realized, that we're tested.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

The first flash of genius lights up only a few yards of the road. The road is long and uphill.