Charles Mingus Quotes

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.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

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.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

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

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

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

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

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Remember there is no success without hard work.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

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

Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting

There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.