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Quotes About Struggle

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
~ Mason Cooley
I know that most of the time I have to work overtime to do everything that I want to.
~ Misty Copeland
It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.
~ Nelson Rodrigues
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
~ Nicola Cornick
My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.
~ Pete Carroll
Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.
~ Pope Paul VI
I literally hate working out.
~ Olivia Munn
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.
~ Ray Charles
The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
All I was trying to do was get home from work.
~ Rosa Parks
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
~ Stanley Kubrick
The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.
~ Stephen Karam
I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.
~ Sylvia Plath
The work of creation is never without travail.
~ T. S. Eliot
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
~ Thomas Carlyle
It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.
~ Tom Petty
No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to.
~ Unknown
Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.
~ Victor Hugo
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
~ Warren Cuccurullo
There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.
~ Unknown
What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.
~ Yoko Ono
We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.
~ Barbara Jane Reyes
I don't think people realize how much work it takes to make an album.
~ Bella Thorne