Colleen McCullough Quotes

No Victory Without Suffering

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

No cross no crown.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

To the stars through thorns.

Everything that's worth making has to involve some sort of pain.

Scars are the price you pay for success.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to manage to capture that light which has never left him, if people knew all that, they would also realize that this happiness, this light, this dispassionate wisdom which seems to be mine, are sometimes well-deserved, given the severity of my trials.

Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it

No gains without pains.

Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?