Ira Glass Quotes

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

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

Success always demands a greater effort.

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.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

Time and pains will do anything.

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

You have to fight for the things you want.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.

Hard work and determination equals success. Nothing comes easy. Put your mind to something.

Talent is long patience.

If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight.

If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ....Work!

School is not easy for kids and football wasn't easy for me... but if it's something you truly believe in, it's something you've got to fight for and be willing to do what you need to do make it work.

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.