Philip Wylie Quotes

There is no progress without struggle.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

Anything worth changing is not easy to change.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

Changing course is never easy.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Change is never easy.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

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

Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.