David Mamet Quotes

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

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

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Nothing in my life was ever easy.

The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

I live with challenges.

You are bound to undergo hardships, and it has been no different for me.

Everything is a test.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

Trouble is part of your life

Great faith must have great trials.

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

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.

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.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.