Quotes About Struggle

It's not like everything was given to me. I had to really work hard for it and earn it.

One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.

I didn't draw Angelina to be famous; I did it simply because I've always had to earn a living.

I've never been a basketball prodigy. I've always had to work, earn my way. And that's the way I want it to be.

There's a lot of crazy stuff in this league, and you got to go out and you got to earn your role out every year.

You've got to earn way to a title shot.

I felt I had to earn my way. I had nobody to support me.

It's hard to go out there and protect something that you earned.

I haven't been given a lot of respect in the division. But you know what? I'm OK with earning it.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

If I never showed my face, it would kind of be easier.

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.

I was not a super social kid and I didn't have the easiest time making friends.

Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.

Taking the company private was not the easiest thing I've done in my life.

Nothing comes easily for me.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

A win is a win, whether you do it the difficult way or the easy way.

There's no easy way to lose weight.

There are times when I'm training and I literally feel like I'm about to pass out because I haven't eaten or what I have eaten hasn't been anything that's going to benefit me.

I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose.

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.