Quotes About Struggle

I tested against Kaley Cuoco for 'The Big Bang Theory.' Not getting that hurts.

I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that.

I think everyone has to have their mettle tested in a tough fight.

When I was in my former band Downhere, I did everything I could not to remind people of Freddie Mercury, but it became almost hilarious how many people compared me to him to the point where it felt like it was working against the band when we tested singles at radio.

I was never tested in my first 21 fights.

With my time in the league, what I will be most proud of is the fact that my character, values and faith were tested, and I persevered.

I was one of those kids who looks really good on paper, I tested very well, I went to a fancy college, won some prizes. When I came out of school, I had many horrible jobs, but I didn't know what the path was to a creative life or the life of a writer.

We are tested every single day in this Biden administration, by other - by our adversaries, and every day Joe Biden fails that test and it's just going to keep getting worse and worse.

We've been tested by every force of nature, disease, and human frailty.

In order to have a testimony, you have to have a test.

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

When I was reading the Bible, I came across the word 'meek.' It means to be humble. I asked God, I want to become meek, allow me to become meek. About two months later I was struck with cancer. I realized this was God testing me. If you want to become appreciative, and humble, and meek, I'll strip you of everything.

Whenever I go through any sort of bad patch, I remind myself that part of the game of cricket is God testing you.

Oh my God, building in Sydney has been extremely testing.

Before 'New Girl,' I had just been grinding in TV for a really long time. I had been testing for so many shows and not getting them. You don't know how difficult it is or how lucky you have to be - and I only say lucky because there are so many people out there - to get a show on the air and keep it going.

When I was put on the hormone testosterone, it made me gain 40 pounds. I was almost 170, which is very heavy for me. I was always 125 my whole life.

I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one of the things I do in almost all my books - my protagonist is put through a very stressful situation that tests their strength and their psychological acuity. That's one of the core components of who I am as a writer.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

They always say baseball is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical, whatever that saying is. I don't even think I know it. But this game is already a game of failure. Going into it not feeling good, battling whatever injuries, tests you even more.

Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.

No political system ever perfectly expresses the needs of its society. No society in the English colonies constructed political arrangements completely faithful to itself.

They say that the challenges in life shape what a person becomes, and say it with such positive conviction that they must deliberately choose to overlook the challenges that destroy people's lives.

When things are going badly, when you feel trapped between sword and sea, when you're under assault, acknowledge the devil—but keep your eyes on Christ. He will see you through. He will make a way.

The good Lord made the world so we could earn our joy, Ma said. But it's no guarantee we'll ever be happy.