Quotes About Struggle

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure

This can't be life.

Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you?

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins