Quotes About Struggle

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

The Olympics: not one of my better memories.

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

I started as a journalist actually. I graduated from Northwestern Medill School of Journalism and with my degree discovered, once out in the real world, I wasn't very good at it.

It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.

When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.

Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?