The Struggle Quotes
Your struggles have not been a waste. They've come to strengthen you. And grow your capacity to lead - and win.
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You're going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.
Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.
Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.
So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.
With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.
Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.
I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good to tell people they were beautiful and special.
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.
It's interesting that the worse things get, the more we believe the next technological fix is going to get us out of it. But it's like being in quicksand: the more you struggle the deeper you sink.
As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever portion of the truth is available to me.
I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.
When a man or woman, young, or old, takes a place on the picket line for even a day or two, he will never be the same again.
The problems we have with our current technology often reveal our own human foibles, and it's these new emotions of cyberspace which reveal our struggles.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.
There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.
I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.
There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.
I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.