June Jordan Quotes

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

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.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

I didn't mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

Easy doesn't do it.

I am still where I started. I am still struggling. In fact, the struggle has only got bigger. I always try to go beyond my means, and this where the struggle comes in.

I'm used to working hard and making sacrifices.

If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.

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.

A little bit of pain is good for you. I feel alive. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

Great achievement always requires great sacrifice.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.

Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that's easy, then you're doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that's really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you're doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that's my philosophy.

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.