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Quotes About Struggle

I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.
~ Michael Phelps
It's easy to get lost in the shuffle, and just enticing people to hear the music for free doesn't mean that much when everyone else is essentially doing the same thing on MySpace, or wherever.
~ Trent Reznor
Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.
~ Henry Charles Carey
I feel empathy wherever and whenever someone feels cornered in life. Whenever someone puts in sweat and blood and does not get the acceptance and appreciation one deserves, I resonate with it.
~ Tanushree Dutta
Wherever I go - be it to school events, county fairs, town halls, or even the grocery store, my neighbors and constituents share the same serious concern. Prescription drug prices keep going up, and families across our district don't know how they can afford them.
~ Abigail Spanberger
The world remains a very hostile place for women in many corners of the globe. As such, we should all strive to battle such injustices wherever these might occur.
~ Gad Saad
Wherever I went, I became a son-in-law. It was a terrible phase for me. I had to work double hard to get back my identity. Whenever I gave an interview, the first question would invariably be, 'What is it like to be his son-in-law?' Now that question comes somewhere in the middle of the interview. Hopefully, soon, it won't be asked at all.
~ Dhanush
I would continue to try to make songs how I did at the start. Wherever that be, like in your bedroom or coming up with ideas on the bus, as you grow that's gonna change. Sometimes it can get forced.
~ Kano
Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.
~ Julian Schnabel
The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
~ J. M. Coetzee
There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is.
~ Don McLean
There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.
~ Richard Sherman
Wherever you repress people, they get hold of a crayon and a bit of scrap paper, and they chronicle their lives and their existence and their history.
~ Michael Horse
I am lucky that people recognise me wherever I go, but that makes it tough for me to shop.
~ Divyanka Tripathi
Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
~ Patrisse Cullors
Our young people live in a world in which there's violence wherever you turn.
~ Nina Jacobson
It's super good for me because wherever you go, there's always going to be competition, and you're always going to have to fight, and I feel that PSG is really teaching me that you have to fight for your position even if you're not playing.
~ Timothy Weah
Wherever I go, I'm followed by trouble.
~ Manisha Koirala
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
~ Carl Jung
Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.
~ Cat Cora
I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it's gender equality, the Time's Up movement, or diversity casting, it's always going to be a back-and-forth battle.
~ Michael B. Jordan
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
~ Wendell Phillips
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
~ Ernest Hemingway