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Quotes About Struggle

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most likely to be replaced by a younger worker.
~ Gloria Steinem
As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.
~ bell hooks
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.
~ Charley Lau
I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.
~ Moby
Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
Working hard is not always fun - that's why it is called work.
~ Rick Pitino
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.
~ Carrie Mae Weems
Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.
~ William Feather
I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.
~ Hugh Jackman
People work harder when conditions are worse.
~ Jeff Goldblum
I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.
~ Marlee Matlin
Now Listen You know I work so hard, all day long Everything I try to do, Seem to always turn out wrong That's why I wanna stop by on my way home and say Let's go get stoned
~ Ray Charles
People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.
~ Devendra Banhart
For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.
~ Edmond Jabes
I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.
~ James Agee
I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.
~ Jean le Rond d'Alembert
The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.
~ Matt Damon
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
~ Jim Carrey
It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.
~ Dwight L. Moody
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
~ William Butler Yeats
Hard work is the price we must pay for success
~ Vince Lombardi