Robert Farrar Capon Quotes

Report followeth not all goodness, except difficulty and rarity be joined thereto.

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

There is no excellency without difficulty.

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

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Anything truly worthwhile does not come easy. If it did, it would not be all that worthwhile.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

Quality is easy to talk but hard to make.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.

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.