Quotes About Struggle

'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks.

There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.

Without the Naval Uprising of 1946, the story of India's freedom will never be complete.

I've been uprooted. I don't think a tree that's been uprooted as a happy tree and I'm not very happy. I can't be. I do not accept to be.

Just understand that there's going to be some ups, there's going to be some downs.

I'm not one of those people who grew up thinking I want to be a politician. I've seen the ups and the downs. I felt it at a very personal level.

I have my ups and my downs like anyone. All I can do is be me.

If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

I worked in a dining hall in college and I worked at UPS for a full three weeks - it was the worst job I ever had.

I've had my ups. I've had my downs, but I've been able to push through every obstacle that's been thrown my way.

I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for UPS, and that paid for tuition for school. I moved to a bigger town, Louisville. I did it for a year. I had to work the graveyard shift. And then you get off at eight for classes, so that sucked. Then I dropped out.

We all have our ups and our downs, and it's consistent throughout all of our lives. It's not a movie: you don't get to a point where, suddenly, you're free forever - it's life.

In 'Good Grief', in trying to create this sense of the huge downs and ups, stumbles of this process, we're almost using the music to make it uplifting, so it's not completely hopeless.

There are ups and down in one's career.

I've been through a lot in my career. I've been through the ups, I've been through the downs. I've been through the highs and the lows.

There are always ups and down in every artiste's career.

There's going to be ups, there's going to be downs and you're going to have to roll with the punches.

I did work at UPS, and I worked at AT&T, which was even worse.

Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

There's many ups and downs in the fight game.

My history has been one of ups and downs. But thanks to God, I keep working, drawing from my life experiences songs that I can sing.

Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.

It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.