C. S. Lewis Quotes

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.

To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

When I'm done skating, I guarantee you that I will not look back and remember standing on the podium. I'm going to remember these days - being with the team. Training alone, in my basement. Training when everybody else is sleeping. Doing things that nobody else is doing. Digging down. Seeing what kind of character I truly have. I love that stuff.

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

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

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.

The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

Makes you grow up quick. Hard work makes you strong. I work hard every day; that's where I get my strength. That and knowing who I am.

Sometimes I feel like my childhood has been taken away from me just a tiny bit. But if you want to achieve your goals, you have to sacrifice some things.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

Excellence requires discomfort.