Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I believe in blood, sweat and tears.

Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it

It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.

When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

Every medal I have won is a story of a difficult struggle.

I'm into hard work. I never had the best talent or the best jumper. I've always been about dirt and sweat.

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

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.]

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

BLOOD, SWEAT & RESPECT. First two you GIVE. Last one you EARN.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

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.

No gains without pains.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.