Quotes About Struggle

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

Change is such hard work.

The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses...

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.