Quotes About Struggle

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

Some things you can only learn in the struggle. When it's easy, when everything is going your way, that doesn't take any faith.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.

It is through suffering that learning comes.

Lines are very difficult to learn.

The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left in 2005. But I'm learning that I have purpose to be here.

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.