Quotes About Struggle

I had to overcome a lot of barriers. Until 1947, it was illegal for people from the subcontinent to migrate to the U.S. The subcontinentals were the last ethnic minority to gain citizenship. You assimilate. My name was too hard. They said, 'Shad is what we are calling you.' You go with the flow.

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

It's been hard for me since the beginning. I have to overcome obstacles every day.

I'm satisfied with what I've done. I'm not satisfied with what has happened in my career, some of the real roadblocks I had to overcome.

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

You were not built for comfort and convenience. You were built to overcome.

There's always adversity to overcome.

You probably can overcome what you're going through from listening to my music.

I have been hated by the whole world and it's been something to definitely overcome.

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

Weight was a big thing for me to overcome.

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

I've always felt in life, you get a lot of things you have to overcome.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

There have been a lot of challenges over the years that I have overcome.

You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality, they had to overcome a lot of noes to get where they wanted to be.

What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.

You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.