Quotes About Struggle

You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things

Great souls suffer in silence.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

The country is not in good condition.

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

I'm a Spalding Gray in a Rick Dees world.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.