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Struggle Quotes
The grind that comes before anything worth having.
This struggle quotes collection includes a defiant call to struggle and grin anyway, the shared hardship of making films with almost no budget, and a sharp line about the exhausting effort of keeping up appearances with an empty wallet. One footballer credits growing up among mixed, struggling backgrounds with teaching him more than the sport itself. See Persistence for what comes after.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
- Garden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown, 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud.' They helped black people figure out how to navigate what was a very treacherous place in America for them.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you feel about a film is what you feel when you're in love with a woman. You fight for her love and it's always a struggle... there are misunderstandings and you're always trying to prove that there's more to you.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You tell that to people until you are blue in the face and they struggle to believe it, but I am being totally truthful when I say that all that matters to me is Wales winning.
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