Martha Graham Quotes

There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.

I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Nothing comes easily for me.

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I've never had anything given to me. I've never had anything easy. My whole career has been that way.

We had nothing, no money, when I was young. We lived in a council house. My dad struggled; my mum struggled. But that made me what I am. If I had everything on a plate from the start, maybe I would not have been a champion for 11 years.

You have to go through some adversity to be able to be successful.

My music career has been very rewarding, but success never came easily.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that is never out of my rearview. I've never forgotten how much your feet hurt after you've stood on them for like 12 hours. And how the drudgery of a job you hate craps on your entire life; how you treat other people, how you treat yourself, and it really was getting to me.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

Just because people don't meet you doesn't mean they're not out there breaking their asses trying to get around.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk.