Quotes About Struggle

Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.

As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.

This is a grueling profession. Either you can't get work, or you can't get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it's not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.

There are days when there's no will to do anything. It's not easy for someone in my profession, because you are always meant to be in the limelight. I can't just not turn up, as I will come across as unprofessional, and people won't work with me anymore.

Michael Jordan was criticized. Barry Bonds was criticized. Some of the greats in every profession have been criticized. Not everything is peaches and cream.

Football doesn't do sentiment well; it's a cruel profession.

I've tried my hand at everything... trying to whittle down the right profession for myself. I tried my hand at clothes, I've modelled, but nothing really worked for me. I didn't really enjoy it, and maybe I was not really good enough.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

Obviously, there are advantages when your parents and you share the same profession. I can always go to them for advice but my struggle and hard work will always be mine.

I used to find comfort in food, but can't do that anymore, because of the profession I am in.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

I think dancing always took me to a different place. It was hard and it was a struggle, but it took me to the kind of place I wanted to live in. It wasn't real life.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

The thing is, I've had many tough fights in my career, all for different reasons. So I think all those together is what makes me the fighter I am now. The biggest fight I've ever had is against myself - whether to give up or not.

Everyone has their own battles, people feel bad all the time for different reasons. For me it was feeling depressed, anxious and out of place. But I wanted to give people something that could sit with them on their own personal level.

Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.

I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

Some set experiences are not good, and sometimes the auditioning process is not fun. There are a lot of different things about this industry that can just make you not enjoy it.

When I was 16 or 17 I knew I was gay, but knowing and accepting are two very different things.