Quotes About Struggle

Those people who wake up and they're just beautiful, they're just born that way. Well that ain't me. I gotta work for everything I've got.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

pain can work form the outside in.

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.