Quotes About Struggle

Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.

I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration.

American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.