The Struggle Quotes

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing.

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

My biggest struggle has been balancing where I give my energy.

Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you're in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy.

[T]he strike is inherently dangerous to the rich, and to the corporations who have brought this country to her knees, because it is the only defense the ordinary citizen has.

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.

I'm ingrained in a lot of - almost too many - causes and struggles around the world because that's where I come from.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

He does not struggle with anyone - thus no one can vanquish him.

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.

There is light. There is darkness. There is high and there is low. But in the world now it seems to me this struggle between light and darkness is more evident than ever.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

It's always a struggle growing up in Akron.

The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in certain situations.

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.

I know from vast experience that fear talks a lot louder than courage. I need to listen to that other voice inside me, that faint one that's struggling to be heard.

The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.

When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

A satyagrahi has always his minimum and it is this minimum that is wanted in connection with this struggle.

Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future.