Stephen King Quotes

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

When you stick to what you're doing, sometimes that road ain't as easy as the rest of them.

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

I didn't have nothing handed to me. It's a hard, long road getting to where I'm at. And I think the fans that have been down with me for a long time, they see that. They've been seeing me clawing my way to try to get to the top.

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

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

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.

Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Talent is long patience.

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

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

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

They never said winning was easy.

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

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

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

My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.

Nothing that is worth doing is ever easy.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

No path of flowers leads to glory.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.