John Milton Quotes

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

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.

The true success is to labour.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

There is no excellency without difficulty.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

The right way is the hard way.

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.

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

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.

That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

I believe in blood, sweat and tears.

Nothing has ever come easy for me.

I think every work is hard in different ways.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

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