The Struggle Quotes

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.

All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

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.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.

Almost as though the painting itself becomes the embodiment of a type of struggle for visibility, and this might be considered the main subject of the painting.

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.

Cinema is the greatest mirror of humanity's struggle. You see this alternative world, but you're part of it. Everybody is part of it. This is our world.

Living is struggling to do something impossible; To succeed or die, knowing that you had tried.

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling!

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

If you don’t have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.

A cry-wanking scene is the struggle to live, in a single moment.

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.

If u can't get along with Dravid, u're struggling in life

What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Being born with a disability, can sometimes be a struggle, but it is the ability to overcome such a challenge, that makes it so worth the fight. NEVER GIVE UP!!!

Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.