William McKinley Quotes

It's tough, trying to get better.

For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

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.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

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

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.

We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.

There is no gain without struggle.

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

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

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

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

Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

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

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

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

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