Quotes About Struggle

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

You have to be willing to work harder and sacrifice more than most to become one of the top fighters.

It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

I don't know what I'm really good at. I'm really good at sittin' by the pool. I have to work at that. I'm really bad at auditioning.

I'm going to go out Monday through Friday and work hard and try to help this team win, because God knows we need a win.

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

90% of the work in this country is done by people who don't feel good".

There is no subsitute for hard work.

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.