Quotes About Struggle

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

I always wanted to be a main eventer in pro wrestling. I lived my dream, but the excess of the '80s and the huge money of the '90s became a great temptation for many of us.

There was a lot of temptation to do lots of bad things in my neighborhood.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.

It is impossible to deny that people in power face more temptations than ordinary citizens.

My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.

Hyderabad can be harsh to a foodie like me. The haleems and the biryanis are in your face. It's hard to overcome temptations and harder not to binge.

I've heard that many fine artists have to turn their 'finished' paintings to face the wall - otherwise, every time they walk past, they are tempted to pick up a brush and make small adjustments here and there.

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you'll be tempted to pick up another drink.

There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.

The Depression was remarkable because you had nothing, and the salaries, when you got a job, were very small. But you could do anything. You see, a donut was ten cents. A cup of coffee was a nickel. That was lunch, with an apple. And I would be playing a lead on a Broadway show on that kind of diet.

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.

Ten days before I started my job at ABC News, I checked myself into a mental health hospital.

I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.

I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.

If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.

You just realize that at the beginning of 'Scooby' you're just going to start at level ten and stay at ten the entire time. It's hard. It physically beats you up. It's definitely one of the hardest movies you can do.