Quotes About Struggle

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I haven't been familiar with hard work. It was no problem for me. But first I hitchhiked to Pontiac, Mich. and got a job working in Fisher Body making those 1951 Pontiacs.

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them.

My parents got divorced when I was about ten years old, but I saw my mom go work two and three jobs to make sure we didn't miss a beat.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

They [police] do me like that all the time! "What you work for?".

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.

I'm sure nobody wants to just work and earn money and all that stuff. I know it's difficult for people to break out of the syndrome, doing a normal job.

I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

I loved work and I loved pouring myself into the work, you know. It was the real life that I had trouble with.

The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.