Quotes About Struggle

If you've got someone fighting your corner, someone who loves you and you love, and is also really, really clever, the battle is so much easier.

I always felt like I needed to be backed up in a corner to push myself.

You back me into a corner, I'm not going to lay down and die. I've been down that road too many years in my life.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.

I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.

When things get you in the corner, and it feels like you can't go on, you can fight back. You're never out of the fight.

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

I know I've cut corners in every single fight I've had because I've used my ability to get through.

Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.

Ultimately, I am an employee of a corporation, and that's weird and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.

Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

Trying to speak correct English is not easy.

I'm not trying to erase my culture or my faith, I'm trying to be the best version of myself, and it's really hard. I don't think I'm right, I don't claim to be correct, I'm just trying to figure it out and figure out a balance.

Our hair and makeup team at 'This Is Us' had made me a mohawk to wear. I couldn't apply it correctly.

Cancer is something that can happen to anyone, like a sportsperson who is eating right and doing his bit correctly. Cancer really takes your life away.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

In a way, I think the whole business is pretty corrupt. It's like anything else where people make a lot of money - it's really hard for the little guy.