Struggling Work Quotes

#1. After you cross a hurdle, it looks so easy. Sometimes, it may feel that it was always possible. However, for that feeling of euphoria, you have to slog. After all, nothing comes for free!

Neelam Saxena Chandra

#2. Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.

Taylor Hicks

#3. My heart grows every day through struggling and love of my kids. It helps balance everything else - the work and the world. It helps keep me grounded and in perspective of what is really meaningful to me.

Kathryn Erbe

#4. I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.

Ryne Sandberg

#5. Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.

David Soul

#6. Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

Julian Baggini

#7. I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#8. For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.

Laura Owens

#9. You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the earth, Sun & all sorts of things-for I think it is the true way (corrected by judgement) to work out a discovery.

Michael Faraday

#10. True budo is a work of love. It is a work of giving life to all beings, and not killing or struggling with each other. Love is the guardian deity of everything. Nothing can exist without it. Aikido is the realization of love.

Morihei Ueshiba

#11. What inspired me to work so hard and to maintain my determination was seeing my mother. She was an immigrant and was struggling in America to make it by; that inspired me to work hard.

Michelle Phan

#12. You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.

John Kirwan

#13. We have swallowed technology and are struggling to avoid the shackles that make it work: rules and laws.

Seth Kantner

#14. We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

Max Planck

#15. The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

Richard Dreyfuss

#16. Be Patient to become a Patent

Zeeshan Ahmed

#17. As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.

Matt Damon

#18. Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling; others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.

Mallory Ortberg

#19. Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai - that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success - is his brush.

Shashi Tharoor

#20. I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

Jessica Valenti

#21. My own life would make a pretty dull story, I think, and I envy him as I drive to work on a cold Minnesota morning across the Mississippi River with its coal barges still struggling upstream like so many of us nowadays.

Garrison Keillor

#22. I grew up in a family struggling for work.

Rick Scott

#23. You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn't work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat.

Karen Marie Moning

#24. When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.

Robert Zoellick

#25. So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

Patricia Velasquez

#26. You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

Richard Flanagan

#27. I'm constantly struggling. You know, the stories that I feel like I could cover, do the work that I want to do and being a mother. That's really where my struggle is - and being a wife and having a life - and for me it's really hard to find that balance. I'm always struggling to find that balance.

Lynsey Addario

#28. There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggling for freedom, struggling to get along in this old world.

Pete Seeger

#29. Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

Ariel Pink

#30. You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

Tatiana Maslany

#31. I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.

Francine Rivers

#32. I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'

Terry Zwigoff

#33. Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

Alan Furst

#34. Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

Pema Chodron

#35. As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.

Octavia E. Butler

#36. Setting proper expectations from the moment you meet a potential client will reduce stress and enable all parties to work together, rather than struggling contentiously through the process.

Michelle Moore

#37. In my work with young Jewish adults in the gay community, I hear their stories of discrimination, of struggling for acceptance, of feeling invisible not for what they have done but simply for who they are.

Lynn Schusterman

#38. I tried something when my career was really struggling: reaching out to people, to filmmakers I wanted to work with. I genuinely wrote a letter to Clint Eastwood saying, "Hey man, I'm a fan and I would be an extra in your movie."

Josh Lucas

#39. Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.

Michael Bassey Johnson