Quotes About Struggle

You have your personal life and you have work life; when it's combined, it's difficult.

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

The songs that you work and work and work on sometimes are just forced and not as good.

In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites.

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

It's really hard to balance work and being a mother.

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

Women have to work exceptionally hard.

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.