It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

Trouble comes in a thousand different ways. Not usually anything you expect, either. That’s why it’s trouble.

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you!

Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

Nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should. Good results require that one take time and care.

Your only path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time.

. . . there is a way out of most difficulties if only it can be hit upon.

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all.

You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.

With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but 'tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.

You can't have anything worthwhile without difficulties.

Plans get you into things but you've got to work your way out.

It follows, then, that the only way to get into Hell is to insist upon it. One must deliberately exclude himself from grace by hardening his heart against it. Hell is what the damned have actively and insistently wished for.

It's awfully easy to rush into a profession you don't really like, and awfully hard to get out of it.