Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy.

Life is not mean to be easy.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

My life is a struggle.

Everyone has their challenges.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

If it were easy, it would have no value.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

No cross no crown.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

It's not the easiest life in the world, but then no life is easy.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.