Michel de Montaigne Quotes

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

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

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

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

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

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

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I think it's very important to teach your children to struggle on some level.

I've had to fight to improve my life. Nothing has come easily.

When you get too much, too quickly, too easily, you don't learn to fight.

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.

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.

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.

That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.

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.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

The path of least resistance will never make you proud.