Quotes About Struggle

It's easier to surrender to confinement.

That's the way life is sometimes: you can fix things up, but you can't make them all better.

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.

It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

Failure is the only thing I've ever been a success at.