Quotes About Struggle

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

We're all brought up in a world that isn't the best place for us to be in once in a while. There are so many problems and we try to overcome them all.

I had asked her for help, and she had sent me to the lions. I knew that she was trying to save her little girl, but sometimes mothers with the best intentions kill their daughters all the same.

If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.