Quotes About Struggle

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

Life does not forgive weakness.

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

I don't know what to tell you, Perry. Life's hard. Love's harder

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.