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Quotes About Struggle

I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
~ Pam Grier
In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.
~ Edward G. Robinson
I think there can always be beauty in struggle.
~ Patricia Arquette
I felt a huge drive to make clothes that everybody could have because I felt ostracized by that world of beauty and fashion. I never thought I would have a part in it. Never in a million years.
~ Jenna Lyons
Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.
~ Jacob Collins
I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.
~ Amelia Earhart
There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty
~ Joyce Carol Oates
For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
~ Edwidge Danticat
In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.
~ Paul Madonna
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty
~ Charles Bukowski
New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.
~ Donald Trump
The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.
~ Halle Berry
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.
~ Haruki Murakami
Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.
~ Robert Tew
Broken people are so beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.
~ Robert Tew
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
~ B. F. Skinner
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
~ Andrew Carnegie
As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst.
~ William Jenkyn
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
~ Fred Durst
Every day is not perfect.
~ Brett Favre
You're not always going to be at your best, but it better be the best you've got that day.
~ Jim Leyland
What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.
~ Rosie Batty