Quotes About Struggle

And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

I search but never find, hurt but never cry I work and forever try but I'm cursed, so never mind.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work?

No matter how hard you work for your money, there's always someone out there willing to work twice as hard to take it away from you.

I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.