Richelle Mead Quotes

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

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.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

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

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.

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

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

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.

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.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.