Henrik Ibsen Quotes

To the stars through thorns.

To choose always the hardest.

I mean, I think everyone at this level has a chip on their shoulder. Everyone's got a story. Everyone has had to go through some adversity to get to where they are at so, I guess, we all do.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.

There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

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

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

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.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

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

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

We can take a 'It was hard to get there.' But we ain't taking no loss. We're going to win.

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.