Quotes About Struggle

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human

I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

Nothing worth having comes easy.

Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

Failure makes me work even harder.

I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior... I am fighting for the work of the Lord.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.