There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Love that title!  I would guess you can apply that to any area of a life - makes it sound like the other saying - 'Anything worth doing is worth doing correctly'.  In my line of work; you could say
'There are no shortcuts to anything worth saying.'  'There are no shortcuts to anything worth listening to.'
'Anything worth listening to and talking about is worth doing correctly'.
Hey - we could do this all day!  = )

So - it is never to late to do something worth doing and getting there without any shortcuts!  Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July!