Quotes About Struggle

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

The real loser of our times is the one who is expected to win.

Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?

I have a fear of failure.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.