John Hodgman Quotes

I work hard and fight easy.

Things are not going to be easy, things are not going to be fair. Just do your best.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

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

Life doesn't reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.

The right way is the hard way.

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.

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

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.

I like struggle.

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

You'll encounter difficulties at any job, and the best way for me to get through them is via endurance.

I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.

I've always had to work twice as hard as everybody, growing up.

I've had to fight through a lot of adversity, but I just kept fighting.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

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

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

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.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.