Stephen Baker Quotes

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

The only way round is through.

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy.

I realized - and I think I learned this at a young age - that anything that's worth anything, you're going to take a risk to get there and it's not going to be easy.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Honour the difficult.

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

The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.

Hardships make or break people.

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

Struggle is part of the journey.