Quotes About Struggle

Basically just being on the road so much and all the pressure of the Eagles eventually got to me.

When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do.

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

The problem is that right from the beginning, there was this whole pressure that I've had to make it big. I don't know if it's my fault or if someone else created this atmosphere around me, but it's been there.

I had nerve damage. It was going to lead to amputation. I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol.

People want to be Lakers. There's just so much pressure, and some guys handle it and some guys can't.

The pressure of looking a certain way and having to present yourself a certain way is hard. It's difficult to feel genuine about yourself when you feel the pressure of being a certain person.

I put myself under immense pressure.

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

I had a year of panic attacks. I was feeling really pressured, like I could never do it again. With a first novel, you put things on hold because it takes so much mental energy and self-belief to keep on writing.

Despite my divorces, I still believe in marriage, and I have believed in all my marriages, although maybe not the one with Sylvester Stallone, as I was really pressured to marry him.

At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.

I was putting all those pressures on myself.

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.

Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.

I overcame a big struggle and was able to play in the most prestigious league in the world - something that kids dream of - and play for a long time.

I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.