Quotes About Struggle

Mostly in high school, when peer pressure took its big hold on me, that's when I started getting into my faith, and that helped me out so much.

I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

I really empathise with some of my peers who had success in the early years; then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

I have been that actor who's watched peers and thought, 'God, they're doing well. I'll never get there.'

As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.

I get what it feels like to watch some of your peers pass you in a field that you're in.

But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.

That was the lowest point in my entire life: The shellshock of not being in the NBA. All my peers are playing and I'm not because of boneheaded mistakes.

I was a late developer. For years, I was searching. I was a lost soul something your parents despair of and your peers deride. It isn't at all happy trying to find the right career.

I wasn't mad, but it was maybe a little frustrating sometimes seeing some friends and peers my age do well. Not because I wasn't cheering for them - because I feel like I was as good as them.

Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

I couldn't write because my nervous system was so bad - I couldn't even use a pen.

It's obviously very tough for any team to lose on penalties.

I am not as dangerous as I used to be. I am not as effective in the penalty area any more. That is something I have lost and something I have to get back. I used to score better goals, great goals. But something strange has happened.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, and often we couldn't get the resources that would excite our students about learning.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.

If anything as simple as child care was covered by the league or your organization, that would be life-changing for moms, especially when we're scraping pennies. Maybe we would have more moms in this league if something like that was there for us, but I feel like we're far from that.

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.