The Struggle Quotes

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.

Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.

Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.

The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on.

If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.

Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil.

It's fun to play somebody who's kind of struggling.

The issue isn't what you're struggling with, it's how you deal with what you're struggling with

Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.

This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve our ideological objectives, is to spread democracy and freedom.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Sometimes I struggle to watch stuff that I've done and sometimes I don't, and I'm sure that my judgment is based on whether I feel like I accomplished what I set out to accomplish.

I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard

I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.

I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.