The Struggle Quotes

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and those who want to struggle for justice.

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted.

The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph

Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.