Quotes About Struggle

My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.

I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.

Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.