Good on you for trying. It gets easier, this I swear. ...But between us and Virtue the gods have placed sweat: long and steep is the path that leads to her, an

Good on you for trying. It gets easier, this I swear. ...But between us and Virtue the gods have placed sweat: long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach, though before that she was hard. (Hesiod, Works and Days)