Quotes about Struggles

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Amos Bronson Alcott

But, generally, it's a lot about her struggles with being a singer and a trail blazer in an industry that didn't accept women and not used to women being as strong as she was.

Morgan Hallett

We definitely had our struggles. As soon as we got on a roll, we looked at the league and thought it's anybody's league.

Chet Stachitas

His injury hasn't cleared up and it means he can't set off for quick runs, it affects his run-up to bowl and he struggles to move between left and right in the field.

Richard Cox

Very clearly I think we're a team that can be in the Top 20. I think we're looking to move into the Top 10, and work our way back up. We've had our struggles early on, and I think we're probably about where we should be at this point. But, I certainly know the team is capable of far more.

Jess Wilk

We're looking at, in 30 years, what's going to be there. If you mess up, everything after that struggles.

Bill Merck

He throws fastballs guys think they can hit, but it just gets by them. He gets stronger as he goes, and even when he struggles, he seems to get out of it.

Tim Bogar

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

William Ralph Inge

He struggles. But he's sober today. He was sober yesterday, he was sober the day before that.

Jimmy Hester

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

The staff and one of our PTO subcommittees have worked very hard to develop a calendar of activities that not only inform our students of the African-American history and struggles in our country, but also focus on celebrating the many positive contributions that African-Americans have made to our country.

Harley Williams

We use the Whitman Massacre as a representation for a lot of the struggles between the incoming settlers and the Native Americans who lived here.

Robert Owens

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

Phil Ochs

She's really quite an expert on dealing with the realities of the struggles between the executive branch, the legislative branch ? and I'm going to say ? the judicial branch.

Andy Card

These issues have basically been untouched in this area before. Why is this area the exception? We need to work on educating the public on the struggles of immigrants. We need employers to know what their workers go through just to get here. The plan is to unite everyone on this issue.

Wendy Vasquez

I obviously haven't done enough of the coaching or preparation you need to do, so we're not going to give up on him as a kid or a player. You can work on a lot of things in practice, but how do you simulate a game? That's where Joe is facing his biggest struggles.

Jeff Tedford

He's been having some tough struggles, ... It's great to see a kid who's been persistent come through with a big win.

Mark Manning

He's probably the best player on our team. When he puts the ball in the net, he's an All-State player. But sometimes he struggles to put the ball in the net.

Jeff Richards

It's important to me that my music touches lives. Not everybody is Christian, but one thing people do have in common is that we all have struggles. We all have issues. We all have tragedies. I feel music should be there to heal, to give you a direction and give you hope. That's what I'm about.

Lawrence Williams

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

Ana Castillo

I never saw 'Glitter,' but I liked her work in the other film. Because this character is interracial and struggles with all sorts of issues because of that, I thought she was perfect.

Lee Daniels

We did what we should have done against less than average pitching. Our struggles still continue when we face better than average arms. I didn't really see us make adjustments.

Jon Bolin

It was teeming with a diversity of life, with mussels, tubeworms, fish and crabs. Struggles for survival were playing out before our eyes. The incredible multitude of crabs in combat with each other for existence is an image I will never forget.

Steve Price

When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.

Anurag Kashyap

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

Alex Lowe

It just shows for me to be successful I have to get ahead on the count. A lot of the struggles I had in this game were from being behind on the count and having to throw the ball down the middle.

Scott Olsen

It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.

Arthur Middleton

It was about learning my swing and learning how to correct my swing. I'd never had struggles like that in my pro career until last year. It definitely taught me some stuff.

Ian Kinsler

We come out and we hit the ball. The guys are swinging it pretty good so far. Give us a little more time to get used to being outside, and I think the offense can keep us in games even if the pitching struggles a little bit.

Jeff Myaer

The struggles of Louisville and Kentucky are aberrations. That shows you the state of the game in college basketball. With kids going to the pros left and right, it's hard to maintain stability.

Mick Cronin

Consumers are demanding better fuel efficiency in their vehicles and less dependence on foreign oil. And we believe the investment community has identified our technology as being poised to meet this demand, especially as the automobile industry struggles to increase the value of their products.

Sal Scuderi

You bring in a guy like Howard Moore who went to school here, and knows the ins and outs and went through academic struggles himself, and he's been a huge addition in terms of helping and telling them what to expect. He's lived it here.

Greg Gard

Young people don't know what it feels like to be in those kinds of struggles, ... I mean, they've got their own struggles, now -- lack of education, lack of opportunity, lack of respect. But in the civil rights movement, people were willing to die, get bitten by dogs, hosed. That was the difference. Our challenge is: How should the civil rights movement look in the 21st century?

Lennox Yearwood

Other than not making the playoffs, things couldn't have gone any better. To go through the struggles we did in the first half and being able to persevere and come back and be in the mix and taking that thing all the way down to the wire was great.

Dave Clark

Tonight, our struggles on the power play were because we were gassed. Those kind of mental mistakes usually don't happen and I think it has a lot to do with being tired.

Fran Mcdevitt

Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we're ready.

Waiter Rant

There were struggles. He and my mom struggled.

Joe Kleinbach

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

George Santayana

Some people don't see that I have different struggles on and off the field, ... It made me want to become a better man than I was.

Steve Sanders

One of the themes is how is it we cope with trials and tribulations? How do we endure struggles and come out differently? ... The book has been criticized for being messy, and it is messy in many ways, with loose ends and stories that don't tie up neatly. But why do we need to impose expectations?

Rose Quiello

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Kelly has been a warrior. He has had some real struggles and battled through. He's an emotional leader, and he's definitely been a spokesman for our club. He also puts a bit of reality in what we do for a living and what a great life we have.

Jonathon Shockey

You've got to give (North) a lot of credit because they had to have something to do with (our offensive struggles. I thought we did a great job, and we had our opportunities. We had some girls that were sick and I think the girls were just really tired at the end.

Bill Spencer

It's been aggravating for me at times going through struggles and seeing other guys go through struggles. I know that's got to be tough on him. I think sometimes he looks at us as a father sometimes will look at a son. When we don't succeed, sometimes it hurts him more than it hurts us.

Aaron Cook

The thing is, other teams key on you, and I've figured that out. Any time you go through struggles, you learn lessons. I don't enjoy it, by any means. I've learned to let things go, just move on and come back at it.

Trent Plaisted

Garrett, of course, has had his struggles, but he is a super jockey. I've always had faith in him and when I heard he was coming back, I called him and told him that I'd always have a spot for him. He has great hands and he sits quiet on a horse.

Beau Greely

The idea is to bring out dynamics of inter-personal relations, rather than inter-caste struggles that form the backdrop of the original.

Pritish Nandy

I wanted him to know the history of blacks in Pensacola and the struggles they endured.

Angela Mack

She [Beall] does really well, sometimes she struggles but she steps in and settles down and really rips the ball when she has got her head on right.

Bethany Baker

It was a good game for us. We've had a couple of struggles lately and we needed to get out and have some fun.

Don Hoffman

All of them are still in there. It might end up being pitching by committee. Somebody at our conference brought up the idea of a closer, like you have in baseball, and we may do some of that, too. They're all different enough that it could be effective. If one kid struggles, bring in another one, and if she struggles, bring in another one.

Denny Griffin

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at.

Jesse Owens

Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of man's experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution.

Thomas Sankara

He's very foul prone and he struggles defensively if he is in foul trouble, so getting guys going at him it might give him a tougher job.

Anthony Stewart

In many ways they embody a lot of the conflicts that America struggles with about this war, with one important difference, they're fighting it too.

Steve James

This is the pay day for the work and the organization all the effort - the struggles to get to this point. This is why we do it. It makes you feel like you have contributed to something magnificent, something outside yourself. That you've helped a family have an opportunity of a lifetime and how many times can you say that?

Launa Butler

The aim is to listen and learn about the struggles, the resistance and rebel movements, support them and bind them together to build a national anti-capitalist, leftist program.

Subcomandante Marcos

Any way you slice it this company did what they said they would do, and their major competitor, Intel, struggles vastly.

Doug Freedman

We've had our struggles. It's a good feeling to get a win. When you score 18 runs, you're supposed to win.

Barry Godsey

[Hill suggested the parties] get together and work it out, ... get past these power struggles.

John Barnett

We found out what their struggles were, what they thought worked well, and we learned all that we could. Then we sent out a letter asking for help from everybody who would want to be involved.

Jolene Polyack

I think in the last two days they've found each other; they've bonded, ... I feel really good about this team. Nothing but good; I don't feel any struggles.

Nancy Lopez

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledged - desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Has to go down as a team award. Most teams have one guy. That one guy doesn't play good, that team kind of struggles. With us, we have so many guys, somebody's going to step up.

Darius Washington Jr

Bond is the ideal zone shooter. He struggles a little against man-to-man, but every time someone has played zone, he has done an excellent job hitting the 3-point shot. He is a senior and he understands what it is all about.

John Thatcher

Without question, Mayor Kilpatrick and Oakland County Executive Patterson personify the tremendous opportunities and challenges this region faces in the areas of economic development, regionalism and our ongoing struggles with race relations. We look forward to constructive dialogue on these issues that are critical to the region's progress.

Sam Logan

We found that these guys are down-to-earth and have the same struggles you and I have. I'll still root for my favorite teams. I'll still root for the Eagles on Monday night. But when you do this, you're reminded that these guys are more than just a uniform. They're people.

Erin Flynn

When executives express their dissatisfaction with their companies' portfolio management success, the problem often stems from internal politics or lack of support. Internal struggles will plague portfolio management groups until their corporate cultures accept their strategic value.

Elio Evangelista

I have not been animated in my life to fight against race and sex discrimination simply because of my own identity. That would mean that one must be South African to fight apartheid, or a poor white in Appalachia to fight poverty, or Jewish to fight anti-Semitism. And I just reject that conception of how struggles should be waged.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

This was a young man who had a very rough time growing up, but he never showed that, never complained. He always had a smile on his face, he liked to laugh and joke. He had no attitude about it at all. He never let people know the struggles he had.

Edward Romero

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

Fred Harris