Challenging Path Quotes

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

Early on, yeah, my life was a bit of a roller coaster.

It's not easy to do the unpopular thing.

The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.

If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

She did it the hard way.

I've never chosen the easy route to world titles or the easy route in fights, and I came up short against Stevenson.

It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way.

Step confidently forward in the precisely the direction that is the most challenging to you. Because in that same direction, you'll also find what is most rewarding to you.

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.

The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.

I'm very grateful for this road that I've been on - it's been a good one. It's been a tough one at times, too.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

The detour is always rougher than the main road