Paula Cole Quotes

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever

Difficulty is our most reliable narrative engine.

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

No cross no crown.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

In so many things, growth comes from adversity.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

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

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I have come up the hard way.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness.

To the stars through thorns.

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

'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.

Strike and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Struggle has been a part and parcel of my life.

I've always embraced battles that are a daily occurrence.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

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.