Mary E. Pearson Quotes

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

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.

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

Not everything is about beating your head against the wall until it breaks.” “Just most things.

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

I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

There is no gain without struggle.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

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

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

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

The right way is the hard way.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

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.

If it doesn't look easy it is that we have not tried hard enough yet.

Nothing has ever come easy for me.

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.