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Quotes About Struggle

There were times when I struggled mentally and felt betrayed.
~ Guy Sebastian
Sometimes you can feel like the only person in the world to have struggled in a certain way and there is a shame around that. The way we deconstruct it all is by talking about it, by listening and even within our circles of friends and checking up on each other, making sure that if someone is going through something, they have someone to talk to.
~ Arlo Parks
We came to the U.S. with $40. My parents were both professionals in China who had difficulty finding employment here. They worked multiple jobs, but we still really struggled. There were times when we could not make rent and were dependent on the good graces of people that we met, and sometimes we depended on shelters.
~ Leana S. Wen
Our freedom fighters have struggled to oust imperial forces and establish a secular nation. It cannot be broken by the Sangh Parivar and Modi easily.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
We struggled for years before we got that record deal. It was tough because we were girls. People were slamming doors in our faces for years.
~ Charlotte Caffey
The provision of healthcare in America has been a major policy issue for many decades. From the establishment of Medicare & Medicaid to the Affordable Care Act, we have struggled to find a solution for not just providing access to healthcare - but also becoming a healthier population.
~ Deb Haaland
I went through a period when I was addicted to gambling. It was a compulsion that I struggled to get to grips with. By 1990, it was in danger of ruining my life.
~ John Virgo
I was born to a single mother and often struggled to find my next meal. With the right opportunities from public education and mentors, I achieved the American dream.
~ Jaime Harrison
I was diagnosed with dyslexia - I struggled a lot in school and didn't enjoy it. I'm not great when it comes to sitting in a classroom - I'm much more about doing things. Boxing massively helped with that frustration and anger.
~ Luke Campbell
I was in the team and then I had COVID and came out, and struggled to get back in.
~ Matt Doherty
Not one team knew I struggled with that - not being able to pick up the phone and call my dad and ask him, Can you help me?' Or, Are you proud of me?' Or to cherish me being drafted or my kids being born.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
My family, for generations, has struggled through the effects of working blue-collar jobs long past the age of retirement.
~ Stephanie Land
We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.
~ Ilhan Omar
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
~ Alex Lowe
In the midst of our own daily struggles, it's often hard to share an understanding for what another person might be going through.
~ Tyler Childers
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
~ Elia Kazan
In much the same way Ip Man embodied the struggles of the Chinese people, I wanted Gong Er to represent the changing role of women.
~ Wong Kar-wai
Everybody struggles to come up with stuff that no one has ever seen before. It's a fine line between trying to get creative and doing something that's new, fresh and different - yet, for me, something that's based in reality that would actually work in these situations. These are the keys to great fight scenes and action sequences.
~ Steven Seagal
This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.
~ David Bohm
It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
As a minority, no sooner do you learn to polish and cherish one chip on your shoulder than it's taken off you and swapped for another. The jewellery of your struggles is forever on loan, like the Koh-i-Noor diamond in the crown jewels.
~ Riz Ahmed
As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.
~ Jason Blum
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
~ George Papandreou