Eric Church Quotes

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

Easy doesn't do it.

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I've worked really hard, but it's definitely not been easy.

Struggles are what made everything worth while.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

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.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

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

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

Success is never so interesting as struggle