Harvey Keitel Quotes

My life is a beautiful struggle.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

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

Hard times always lead to something great.

I embraced every struggle because it made me the fighter I was.

I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

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.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The struggle I went through has value.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.