Quotes About Struggles

Many of my deepest insecurities stem from my issues with my dad.

Everybody has a right to their own troubles.

Life is a series of disappointments, Mr. Tolland. Life is a series of promises that come to nothing.

Long ago, she'd learned that life could be bitterly disappointing if allowed. There were blows and stumbles, but your job was to stay interested in the world.

Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power.... But most men earn less than they want, barely the minimum wage. They're drones. They do stuff they don't want to do to support their families, and they're not sure why they do it. They don't know what they're doing half the time, and any time we stick up for ourselves, we're pigs because we don't know how to articulate our frustrations and joys.

We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

Sometimes you have a fight with your wife, I have a fight with your friend, is normal life. And sometimes you have a fight in your job, too. But it's not very important, little fights.

In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

If there is one thing I object to, it's actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself.

Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts.

Ten thousand dreams ensepulchered within their crozzled hearts.

And it may even be that in the end all problems are spiritual problems.

IN THE SPRING OR WARMER weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals in palimpsest old buried wanderings, struggles, scenes of death. Tales of winter brought to light again like time turned back upon itself. Ballard

There was a fantasy aspect to our time together that I don't think prepared us for some of the mundane daily struggles life has in store.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

look back at those huge obstacles—such as illness, accidents, addiction, financial loss, children's struggles, and divorce—and see in retrospect that they were actually gifts disguised as problems.