Kabir Bedi Quotes

I abhor this dirty work but when one is employed to sweep chimneys, one must black one’s fingers.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor; do not try the law; do not think of the ministry; let alone all ships and merchandise; abhor politics; don't practice medicine; be not a farmer or a soldier or a sailor; don't study, don't think. None of these are easy. O, my son, you have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave!

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.

I've had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I've lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.

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.

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.

Life is not always easy. And that is a major reason why it is so precious. Many of life's best rewards are possible only because you must work your way through difficult challenges to get to them. If everything in life were easy, there would be no opportunity for real fulfillment.

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!

I would be the last person on earth to complain about what I do - I feel very fortunate and I know there are a million jobs in the world that are much, much harder - but it's not always an easy or glamorous thing to do, that's for sure.

Sometimes, you're going to have to work hard, sometimes extra hard, and sometimes you still won't get that recognition. That's life. That's the way it is. But if you keep working, eventually you'll get the prize you're seeking.

That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

I think it's my nature to engage in things that are more difficult.

It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value.

And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.

Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day.