Quotes About Struggle

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

Walk along one day and do nothing wrong, play by the rules, be a good person, do everything right: it doesn't guarantee anything.

I am not a good decision maker; that's one of the things I don't like about myself.

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.

I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.