Quotes About Slog

#1. I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.

Steven Bradbury

#2. Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often - especially if you have a lot of defenses to let down, or if your parents didn't know how to love you very well.

Tracy McMillan

#3. For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

Joe Klein

#4. After you cross a hurdle, it looks so easy. Sometimes, it may feel that it was always possible. However, for that feeling of euphoria, you have to slog. After all, nothing comes for free!

Neelam Saxena Chandra

#5. I'd always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Charlaine Harris

#6. Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game.

Lynn Coady

#7. Time, effort & persistence make for the writing of a good novel. There's no such thing as "writer's block." Just reluctance to make the slog

Mark Rubinstein

#8. Jindagi bhar gadhe ki tarah slog marane se aur kuchh din rich Arab Shaikh ki tarah paisa bahane se quality of life change nahi ho jaati. We only remember one week of good time, but never go back to what we scarified for that one week.

Ravindra Shukla

#9. It's a hard slog doing promotion, but its nothing compared to working in a factory packing meat pies or whatever.

Felix Buxton

#10. Many of us will spend our entire lives trying to slog through the shame swampland to get to a place where we can give ourselves permission to both be imperfect and to believe we are enough.

Brene Brown

#11. And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability to slog through adversity, which looks like strength from the outside and just feels like every day when it's happening to you.

Anna Quindlen

#12. I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.

Anne Lamott

#13. Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better.

Charlie Munger

#14. In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

Amy Dickinson

#15. On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn't an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn't do what he liked.

Charlie Jane Anders

#16. We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.

Uri Geller

#17. He would have no inkling of the great slog of effort that tied up people like her in the day-to-day.

Barbara Kingsolver

#18. It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

Seth Godin

#19. Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.

Arlene Blum

#20. Occasionally, he would exclaim over a view or regard with admiration some passing marvel of nature, but mostly to him hiking was a tiring, dirty, pointless slog between distantly spaced comfort zones.

Bill Bryson

#21. I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.

Peter O'Toole

#22. In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

James Dyson

#23. I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

Denise Mina

#24. It's not all book signings and publicity photos, you know. You want fame, you have to be prepared for a long hard slog.

J.K. Rowling

#25. Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something about, you really have difficulty unless the international community really mobilizes.

Condoleezza Rice

#26. Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

Jason Mraz

#27. Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

Liberty Ross

#28. I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.

Jacques Delors

#29. With every project I start out on, there's no footage. It's always a big slog to find the footage.

Alex Gibney

#30. It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.

Ted Strickland

#31. As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about.

Juan Enriquez

#32. You studied history. You know this. Everybody's history is one long slog of all the horrible shit we've done to each other.' 'It's

Becky Chambers

#33. Left to their own devices, women would stop having sex after they have children. There's no evolutionary need for it. Our brains know it, our body knows it. Who feels sexy during the slog of motherhood, the middle-aged fat roll and the flattening butt?

Maria Semple