Quotes About Struggle

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

Is not falling down. Failure Is desiring to live Where I have fallen.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.

I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

An existence transfigured by failure.

There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.

His thoughts flicked between the confidence of the Anyala Stone, the expectations of his world, and, the certainty of his failure.

Courage drown by horses is hard to market, and makes more wounds.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!

But all you see is the crap. So you don't have to believe in anything. So you'll have an excuse to fail.

The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.