Struggle Quotes

"I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the ghetto striving to do something positive with myself." "To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself" "Chaos isn't a pit Chaos is a ladder" "Those who live are those who fight." "No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed." "Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse, isn't it? If you're comfortable while you're doing it, you're probably doing it wrong." "Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it." "The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face." "You lose nothing when fighting for a cause." "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." "I may have been the best fighter, but I was also the poorest. I had never been able to afford a first-class mouthpiece to protect my teeth. I had to wait until other fighters finished so I could borrow their headgear, or their trunk or bandages." "I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith." "I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage." "In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it" "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." "We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure" "Whatever you do, it's never enough." "Life is hard. After all, it kills you" "Take a good look around and you'll see, everybody trying hard to feel free." "I think part of my destiny has to be realizing that I'm not the poster boy for drug abuse. I'm just this guy who has a very strong sense of wanting home and wanting foundation and having not had it"