Lewis Black Quotes

People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.

Still humping the American Dream

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.

The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Easy is not an option!

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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

I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'

Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of 'negative' experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

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

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.