Sufjan Stevens Quotes

The right way is the hard way.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

There is no success without hardship.

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.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

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

There is no gain without struggle.

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.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

I like struggle.

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

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

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

Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.

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.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.