Quotes About Struggle

I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless.

No one has it easy, and to some degree, everyone feels lonely and powerless, which may cause them to make hurtful decisions.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

I'm challenging the powers that be.

The romance that can never really gel because of the powers that be... that's a great conflict.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.

The 'Will Powers' story is like my life to a certain degree.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.

I just feel like I influence people because I'm like - I was practically homeless.

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

We get paid way less than we deserve. We deliver shows and deserve to get paid more. We practically pay to do this. You deserve to get better paid if you sell the fight.

As a middle class girl from Delhi, with practically no backing in films, this industry and the audience have given me a lot of love.

There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

I like art; if I could just draw pictures all day, I would, but I can't; I'm horrible. I practiced at it, still didn't get better - gave it up. I'm good with words, though, so I write music, poetry; sometimes I just journal in my phone.

I made records for 20 years, I lived off it. But people would say I made so many mistakes, I did so many things you're not supposed to do. I had a band name nobody could say. I didn't play live. I never practiced, I never got better at my instrument.

Practices were tough.