Callum Smith Quotes

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.

There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

No one ever said learning was to be easy, but it's part of the process of evolving as a human being, and we all have to go through it. When I look back, I see that each difficult time brought an important lesson. And I prefer to look at it with gratitude because I wouldn't be who I am today if I haven't gone through it all.

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

I never went to university.

From a boy who left university as a student straight to WWE - those experiences, those ups and downs in life and work shaped the wrestler and man I am today.

Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperboy, or evening TV. There are good moments and bad moments and not everything will tie together nicely in the end. But that's life, and I think I'm finally starting to get it.

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.

I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

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.

Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?