Quotes About Struggle

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

I am not "cured"--I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.

Even the loveliest shoulders can bear but so much.

As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.