The Struggle Quotes

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.

I don't think about those things, really. I work hard on everything I do. Everything is a struggle, everything is hard, everything is difficult.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time for me.

The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.

Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

American business needs a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism.

We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work.

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

We have long struggles with ourself, of which the outcome is one of our actions; they are, as it were, the inner side of human nature. This inner side is God's; the outer side belongs to men.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

Competitiveness always rests on the assumption of a life-and-death struggle.

It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.

I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.

Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

We all would like to struggle like Tiger is struggling.

You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright

I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

The most difficult battle you ever fight is the battle to be unique in a world that will marshal its every force to keep you the same.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

My operating assumption is we will always have very tough competition. And even with some European banks struggling right now, some of them can reemerge - and maybe even stronger.

The most important thing for me - and the thing I get frustrated about when I don't achieve it - is momentum. Sometimes you hit on it quite naturally and other times it's a mad struggle.

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.

That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.

Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

Whatever your struggle, my brothers and sisters-mental or emotional or physical or otherwise-do not vote against the preciousness of life by ending it!