Confucius Quotes

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

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

Every medal I have won is a story of a difficult struggle.

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.

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.

There is no gain without struggle.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

I've worked really hard, but it's definitely not been easy.

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

There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

My only path has always been to work hard.

Success is not usually easy or fast.

Hard work is the only way to success. You have to be tough, stay tough.

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

I'm a guy who struggled to get to where he is, and only through hard work and dedication have I been able to find my success.

If you want to do something for the rest of your life, it's not going to be easy, especially being a pro hockey player, so you need to work at it.

Nothing in my life has ever come easy.