Quotes About Struggle

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Being a woman is hard work.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

Remember there is no success without hard work.

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don't work out.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.