Ira Glass Quotes

It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

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

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

We are graduates of the school of patience.

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.

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

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.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Without patience, there can be no genius

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.

Everything stinks till it’s finished.