Quotes About Struggle

It has been a difficult journey for me, which started where I used to live: in Virar. All credit to my dad, as he was the only one who took me everywhere. He used to take me to matches and practices, and they were all far away from my home in Virar.

I'm a person who hates practicing. It's my arch-nemesis, but it helps.

I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered. That was my first heartbreak. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.

I try to keep it really real on my social media, whether it's me training or working out, whether it's me practicing or failing at something.

In life, there are always intense battles, and yet we must practise the lessons from the Gita.

I fell off the tour when I was younger and had to go back home and practise harder and get better.

When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological control of the society was almost absolute.

I see some fighters lose very badly, but still they get more praise or they're not overrated. They're just good fighters in a lot of people's eyes. But I feel like one loss with King Mo, it made me a very bad fighter somehow.

Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

It's hard to enjoy the acclaim and savor the praise when the team isn't winning.

I'm not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.

I try to remember who I am and what I come from, because I didn't come from super means. I had to work and pray and try really hard to succeed and get everything that I wanted out of life.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

There's days in training where everything flows and days in training where they don't. You just pray that doesn't happen the night of the fight.

I get up early, go to bed late, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. And I pray a lot.

Did I pray for death? I did one time. I wanted to die so badly. And I didn't want to die. I wanted to rest, you know. And I knew the only rest I would find is in death.

I'm not proud that, in my time, I've tried to harness the power of prayer to fit into a pair of jeans.

Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it.

Prayer is so complicated.

'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Wanted Dead or Alive' - those are iconic songs.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.