Richard Marx Quotes

I think the tougher the challenge the better.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Enjoy the hard days, not every day is going to be fun but the days that are hard is when you get better.

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

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

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

You don't want people who have never had to deal with adversity - you want people who have been able to deal successfully with adversity. That's what adds to society. Those are going to be the hardest-working, best people.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.

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

The harder the race, the better.

Struggle is the best teacher.

TNA didn't use me, but I got hungrier to wrestle. The struggle made me better.

Problems just make me more determined.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.