Quotes About Struggle

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

The year my mom worked as a secretary at an apparel company in midtown, she would often come home in tears because she had mistakenly called her boss by another coworker's name. 'You know how it is,' my father said, 'they all look the same. It's not your mom's fault. There's just no telling them apart. Same high nose and deep-set eyes.'

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

After 'Taramani,' life has changed - in a sense, as we grow, we evolve. My regret was post its release. After giving so much of my effort, blood, sweat, tears and time for a movie... I still didn't get any big offers. That really hurt.

I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

I've put my blood, tears and sweat into the sport.

And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.