H. G. Wells Quotes

To the stars through thorns.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

I have lived through very difficult times.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

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.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

No Victory Without Suffering

A smooth life is not a victorious life.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

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

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

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

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.