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Quotes About Struggle

Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.
~ Hugh Jackman
I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.
~ Jack Kerouac
I've spent my life being embarrassed.
~ Jessica Chastain
All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.
~ Jim Rohn
God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.
~ Alesha Dixon
The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
~ Anatole Broyard
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
~ Baz Luhrmann
The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.
~ Bear Bryant
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights, drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.
~ Bobby Bare
There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.
~ William Wharton
A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.
~ Stanley Tucci
I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
~ Stephen Spender
It's probably been the worst three months of my life.
~ Steven Gerrard
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
~ Tennessee Williams
My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.
She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.
~ Vincent Canby
I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
~ Mike Tyson
People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
~ Mike Tyson
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
~ Paul McCartney
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.
~ Philip K. Dick
Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
~ Philip Zimbardo
All is going well, very well, I couldn't ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?
~ Orson Scott Card
Sometimes in life, you will get knocked down.
~ Ray Rice