The Struggle Quotes

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.

My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge.

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

I always think I am one of the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food. I don't know how to relax, that's my problem.

I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.

You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner.

It doesn't feel good when you have to struggle to get your pants on.

When someone has a weight problem when they're pregnant, they will struggle before, during and after to lose weight.

I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.

If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.

I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.

Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle.

I have always been honest with my fans, which means being open about any struggles I have had along the way.

...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.

You get closer to your own humanity by understanding the stories of other people and the struggles they have.

I think every time a movie gets made, it's a miracle. I would love to get to a point where it became easier and it wasn't so much of a struggle to get it done or finished.

As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

Then, as they stood there, struggling back and forth without avail, Eragon said in a low fierce voice, "I...see...you." A bright spark appeared in Arya's eyes, then vanished just as quickly.

Nine million Americans a year, that we know of, struggle with infertility.

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.

I think audiences definitely respond to people who are not living the perfect lives. The flawed characters, the people who are struggling. The antiheroes - people like to see that a lot more.

I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.

We all have our own areas where we are gifted or where we struggle and that's at the heart of everyone's journey.

I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.