L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.

... when things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the 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.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

The best way out is always through.

To the stars through thorns.

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

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

I struggled for so many years.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

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.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

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

The only way out of a hole is to climb out.

Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

The child endures all things.