Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James A. Baldwin

As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with.
Timothy Murphy

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
John Acton

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.
Paul Robeson

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.
Roger Federer

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
Camryn Manheim

For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
Greg LeMond

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
Barack Obama

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
Edwin Moses

I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
Natasha Henstridge

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.
Don Johnson

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

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing.
Robert Jay Lifton

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
Augusten Burroughs

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.
Jonathan Brandis

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.
Michael Bergin

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
Elia Kazan

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
Oliver Stone

I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.
Chaka Khan