The Struggle Quotes
I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.
I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.
The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life.
In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.
I wish I had a typical workday. I struggle to get up at seven and almost always fail. I just try to get to my office as soon as I can, but it's always later than I would like.
American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.
Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.
Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...
Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."
Whatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime.
If I help one person out with getting through the struggles that I've had, then I've done my job on this planet and this life.
Pacifism, to me, is primarily a way of actively struggling against injustice and inhumanity; My kind of pacifism may be called "non-violent resistance".
Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.
I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.
The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?
Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
To let go in the deepest recesses of the heart, to release all struggle and wanting, leads us to that knowing which is timeless.
There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...
What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as it must, until this struggle ends.
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.
Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.
I was recruited to sort of be the doc to advocate for communities that were struggling with polluting incinerators, polluting coal plants, toxic waste sites, etc.
I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.
Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.
Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.
Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do.
If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.
I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.
Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.
~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~
When I got my commission, other land surveyors told me to ask for advice from my peers when I was struggling with something.
