Quotes About Struggle

It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more - I salute you. But it's just as hard to admit something isn't working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.

It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.

Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

I'm not sure comics sustain mortgage, and the house, and three kids.

The struggle is to sustain the quality. When I look at my work and the kind of responses I'm blessed with, I feel I need to do so much more.

You can't do everything I did for all those years and not sustain some injuries.

Even the biggest superstars of the country have to struggle to sustain their position and power.

For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

A lot of singers entered the industry with me. A lot of them struggled. Many have not been able to make it but some have sustained.

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Who, adult or child, is Michael Jackson truly close to? What and who is he trying to flee? What's the nature of the psychic damage he has so clearly sustained? I suspect his racial identity is more a byproduct of that damage than the primal cause.

Part of growing up is realizing the frustrating, heartbreaking truth that intense and sustained long-term effort is needed to effect change.

I have some star status. But I don't have that sustained success rate.

I love Australia and loved growing up here, and that's something I don't want to deny our children, but it's difficult sustaining a career in Australia.

I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

It's a tough pill to swallow, when you come so close to winning and you fall short.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

Of course, I have my ways of getting into trouble. We all have times when we think, Oh my God, can the world please swallow me up and take me away from this?