George Lucas Quotes

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.

To the stars through thorns.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

Life is a series of problems.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

In spite of the problems he was having he was going on with his life. There are thousands who don’t or won’t or can’t and plenty of them aren’t in prison either.

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!

I'm sure you've felt this way along the way: Yes, I got to do what I wanted to do. But it was much harder than I thought it was going to be, and it continues to be. You never get to a place that is a place of rest. I think that's OK. It's not bad - life is hard work!

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

A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

Struggle is part of the journey.

Nothing's ever easy as long as you go on living.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.