Quotes About Struggle

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.

I don't know if there were many pros for me playing early. I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year.

It's ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there's a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.

A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespan. I know all these parents are out there driving their children to be professionals, but so many pros will tell you, 'No, you don't want to do this.'

We've all got different ways to deal with adversity as pros, but if you want it and you want to be great, you've got to make it happen and fight through it.

I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.

If you wrote a crummy line or maybe didn't sing to the best of your ability, there's layers of 10 different instruments all working to convey something. In writing prose for the memoir, if it's not working, it's just not working. It's harder to figure out how to fix it.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accommodate being ill.

The family name hasn't fostered my prospects - ever.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

The last thing I wanted to do was get buried in Triple-A behind prospects.

People are always asking if I was mad at Houston. Honestly, I'm not. The truth of the matter is that when I was there, I didn't perform and they actually did me a favor by cutting me loose. They could have really held me there, not let me leave, bury me in Triple-A, put me behind some prospects and I would never even play.

I've fought a lot of prospects.

It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.

Freedom, respect and prosperity are never served on a plate.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation.

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

I just didn't want a musical side of me being prosperous but I'm dying on the inside.