Thomas Carlyle Quotes

I'm still swimming.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

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.

The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.

No Victory Without Suffering

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Strength and struggle travel together.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.