Quotes About Struggle

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Failure has no friends.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

Success is a worn down pencil.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.

It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.