Quotes About Struggle

Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled.

I was a chubby kid who got made fun of a lot, and I got fit in high school, and I stayed fit in my 20s, until my dad died.

I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.

They said if I stayed in the orphanage for another month or so, I basically would not have been able to be alive.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

I am not Padma Shri Manoj Bajpayee. I am Manoj Bajpayee, an outsider who saw dreams and stayed on the fringes of Mumbai and worked day and night to get work.

Mum stayed home to look after us, and Dad was an electrician, working long hours to support us. We never went without, but we did have to be careful.

When I first started playing at Norwich, West Brom were in the Championship, got promoted, got relegated, got promoted, got relegated, and all the time, they were building until they eventually stayed up.

After a hellish decade, my son got and stayed sober.

The first record we made in three days. We literally stayed up for three days making the first album. It was crazy, crazy, crazy for us to do that. We couldn't believe anyone would give us a record deal. I look back on that record fondly but with just the slightest bit of a cringe.

I was quite a plain boy. I stayed in work and eeked out a living, bit parts on TV, walk-ons in films, repertory companies.

I stayed away from family life and stayed fixated on getting rights for the backward castes. This is why I could never have a family, as it brings added responsibilities, and people start accusing them of giving more importance or focus on their families.

It is hard for a young player at Real Madrid, they will always buy in new players and not look at the youths. If I stayed I could have been in the reserves for years.

It's easy to enter the UFC, but staying there isn't.

I didn't enjoy my college life in Noida much because I was quite disoriented there, since I was staying away from my family.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

I am just working on staying alive.

The hard part is staying at the top. Getting to the top, you got somebody you shooting at. Then when you get to the top, now people shooting at you.

My main problem has been staying healthy.

Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.

I have friends who died being successful bohemians. Today, I see people my age who are gifted but who insisted on staying in this group, and it's beaten them so bad. They have to spend so much time on ego maintenance, they can't get any work done. They'd be very happy to sell out, but there are no buyers, and that hurts.

Sometimes it's better to come through from, say, last to eighth than staying eighth, and you've qualified eighth!

Let's face it, staying at home has its appeal. The modern family set-up with both parents working is fraught with challenges most of us will have experienced.

People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.