Quotes About Struggle

My stepmother wanted to be an actress.

I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.

From the moment I stepped into this industry, I've always had to fight for my ideas and for my voice to be heard.

Every time I stepped on the practice field when I was in San Diego, I dreaded going to work. It wasn't any fun. I didn't like the people I was playing with. They didn't like me.

When I stepped up a division I can remember suffering the worst fatigue I had ever felt. I noticed it massively.

It's a blessing and a curse. I feel like I've gotta fight every dude that stepped foot on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'

For me, getting up is an inside job, but it has been hard stepping in the cage with guys who I've had to lose against and not a lot to gain.

Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do.

I had cut myself off from everyone. I didn't come out of my room, forget stepping out of the house. I had a beard, and I didn't get a haircut for months. For someone who has performed in front of a crowd of 20,000, I was scared of facing 4-5 people. That's what bipolar disorder does to you.

Growing up, I had a lot of family members who worked in the Dallas Independent School District, and they shared stories firsthand with me about kids stepping into the cafeteria hungry before practice, or waiting for the school building to open the next morning just so they could get a meal.

I was very painfully honest in saying that there had been times that I thought about stepping down.

In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.

You don't know how many times I fell just taking ridiculous small steps.

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.

It's not easy to go up the steps after a defeat. It's very difficult for me, for everybody, but we have to accept it.

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

Since I was born and raised in Brazil, the steps to becoming an entrepreneur in the United States have not always been easy.

Broadway is the same as Hollywood. Every few years we say we reached the mountaintop, then we take two steps back.

I can't believe women walk around in stilettos. I would not make it two steps.

My career has been two steps forward and three steps back.

There hasn't been any positive steps for moms in the NWSL. Now we're kind of getting our heads together, getting ideas together, and so now we can start somewhere as moms... Child care is not cheap. And if you look at our paychecks and you look at child care, there goes our paycheck. How are we going to eat?