Walt Whitman Quotes

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

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.

There is no gain without struggle.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

They never said winning was easy.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

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

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

The right way is the hard way.

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 is no road of flowers leading to glory.

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.

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever

I've had to fight for everything.

It's easier to lose than to win.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

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.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.