Michel de Montaigne Quotes

What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

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

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.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

Nothing comes easily for me.

No cross no crown.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I've struggled a lot for what I have today.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

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 do not achieve anything without trouble, ever

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

Nobody said being platinum was easy.

I've never had anything given to me. I've never had anything easy. My whole career has been that way.

It's not like everything was given to me. I had to really work hard for it and earn it.