Colleen McCullough Quotes

The most challenging project I've ever done, I think, is every single thing I've ever tried to do. It's never easy.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Before 'Cinderella Man,' I didn't box. But I boxed. It's possible. You go and you work hard at things.

I like struggle.

Easy doesn't do it.

There is no success without hardship.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

Easy is not an option!

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

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

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

Let us not alter our course simply because it leads into a dark thicket of work.

You always need to try hard to find solutions. It's the same in life or tennis.

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

I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.