George Steiner Quotes

My whole life, nothing was handed to me. I had to go out in the world and get it.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I've struggled a lot for what I have today.

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.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

The hardest part sometimes is when you don't get the reps and you continue to push yourself to learn and understand what's really going on.

We had to struggle for what we've learned, but we're so thankful.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I believe success is delayed failure.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

The struggle I went through has value.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

I ain't going to say everything I touch turns to gold or camouflage. I've got to work hard to keep what I've got. Nothing comes easy to me. It never has.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Failure, failure, failure, partial success, renewed failure, ultimate and complete victory.

Strike and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.