Quotes About Struggle

I'm bad at math.

I was never good at math.

I am bad at numbers and math. Always was!

I'm not good at math.

I was very bad at mathematics in school, and I always had the feeling as a kid that when I worked on problems, that I would be wrong.

At school, I had to work really hard to get a D in maths. And I wasn't slacking off; I actually did work quite hard.

We'd grown up without any money. I mean, everything was a struggle; our lives were a struggle, and dancing changed all of that. Nothing mattered; it was the most important thing in my life.

Everybody is great when things are great. It's the 'not great' stuff that matters.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

Some people can accept the changes in life in a mature way but for most others, it is never easy.

You have to go through things in life in order to mature.

I was a young, messed-up kid who didn't mature until he became a Christian. That was in 2008 - the rest of my life, I'd been living a lie.

I think of dystopian as 'Mad Max,' as 'Book of Eli,' as the world is ending.

I had to spend eleven months in the same room with Vince Russo and Vince McMahon, that's where I really got to hate life in general.

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington.

One in six people in the U.S. at some point each year don't know where their next meal will come from.

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

It is a materialistic world full of mean people and not a place for people like me who value emotions.

It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have been through. I feel like the history and meaning of all we have been through has been trashed.

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.

I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.

I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.