E. W. Howe Quotes

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

From Day One, I've always had to work to find my way onto the court or onto the top position or whatever it may be.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

To the stars through thorns.

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

If you think about it, there are a lot of parallels between a sportsman's journey and the acting journey. You face so much adversity and disappointment, and you can work incredibly hard for a long time with very little results, and then, hopefully, something happens.

I've carried my chip with me my entire career. I've had to fight and claw for every position I've had. I sat on the bench as a junior in high school, I had to compete my senior year in high school to get the job. I competed again at Vanderbilt before having success.

We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.

We had nothing, no money, when I was young. We lived in a council house. My dad struggled; my mum struggled. But that made me what I am. If I had everything on a plate from the start, maybe I would not have been a champion for 11 years.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

There is no gain without struggle.

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.

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

The right way is the hard way.

When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end.

Anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way

What a man needs to get ahead is a powerful enemy.

Success is never so interesting as struggle