Dar Williams Quotes

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

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.

There have been plenty of stories of people who go through adversity and had a bump in the road. The guys who persevere and continue to work hard, it turns out OK for them.

Success always demands a greater effort.

With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.

I didn't have nothing handed to me. It's a hard, long road getting to where I'm at. And I think the fans that have been down with me for a long time, they see that. They've been seeing me clawing my way to try to get to the top.

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

I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.

You will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.

There is no gain without struggle.

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

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

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

Remember there is no success without hard work.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.