Quotes About Struggle

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has come to this.

I milked, of course, and did some work around the barn, and tried not to think about Brian, which was like trying not to breathe.

It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.

I do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear.

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.

There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County. There's no way a family can pay $15,000, $20,000 a year for health insurance and make it work. You just can't do it. It's got to change.

Black people have been working hard for decades.

We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.