Joel Osteen Quotes

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.

There is no gain without struggle.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

There is no excellency without difficulty.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

The right way is the hard way.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

Trouble is part of your life

A smooth life is not a victorious life.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

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

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.

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

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.