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Quotes About Struggle

Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.
~ Gram Parsons
Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.
~ Hafez
But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.
~ Chris Kyle
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
~ Clara Schumann
The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
~ Bette Davis
I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.
~ Pete Sampras
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
~ Phil Keoghan
Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.
~ Donald Trump
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
~ Richard Pryor
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
~ George Edward Woodberry
Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
All I've ever done is work in bars and be a wrestler; I often wonder if I'd have pumped gas, would I have been a womanizer and had addiction problems?
~ Scott Hall
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
~ Steven Spielberg
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me do what I do in the big picture.
~ Hank Williams III
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
~ Madeleine Albright
Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.
~ Sonia Gandhi
Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.
~ Isobel Miller Kuhn
You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
~ William Gibson
Every now and then you're going to get beaten, but we work hard.
~ Chris Paul
About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir