The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
~By Elizabeth Blackwell ~
Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.
~By Nick Nolte ~
I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
~By Fred Hampton ~
I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.
~By Mohammed Omar ~
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.
~By Jim Costa ~
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
~By Fidel Castro ~
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
~By Kim Jong Il ~
There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
~By Al Lewis ~
If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.
~By Dario Argento ~
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
~By Albert Camus ~
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
For eons, humans have struggled to find less destructive ways of living together.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.
~By Edwin Moses ~
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
~By Lech Walesa ~
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
~By Charlize Theron ~
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.
~By Paul Robeson ~
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
~By Bernadette Devlin ~
With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life.
~By Frederick Soddy ~
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
~By Aaron Klug ~
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
~By Margaret Anderson ~
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.
~By John Moody ~
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
~By Ossie Davis ~
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.
~By William Kunstler ~
There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.
~By Tina Yothers ~
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.
~By Joe Slovo ~
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
~By Molly Ivins ~
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.
~By Lee Tergesen ~
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
~By George Gurdjieff ~
That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.
~By Akhmad Kadyrov ~
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
~By Heinrich Himmler ~
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
~By Billy Bragg ~
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.
~By William O. Douglas ~
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
~By Stevie Wonder ~
We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
~By Emile Zola ~
This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.
~By Howard Dean ~
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
~By Germaine Greer ~
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
~By George Sand ~
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
~By Albert Claude ~
It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming.
~By John Sexton ~
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
~By E. M. Forster ~
It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
~By Mark Rydell ~
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
~By Anna C. Brackett ~
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.
~By William Wells Brown ~
And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
~By Loretta Young ~
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.
~By Holly Near ~
If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
~By Gary Numan ~
Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.
~By Mike Epps ~
The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
~By Edna Ferber ~
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
~By Amos Bronson Alcott ~
Anytime there is a struggle between doing what is actually right and doing what seems right, then your ego is interfering with your decision.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
~By William J. Clinton ~
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
~By F. H. Bradley ~
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
~By Henry Moore ~
The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.
~By Scott Stapp ~
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
~By Charles A. Beard ~
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
~By Isadora Duncan ~
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
~By Edna Ferber ~
I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
~By Elia Kazan ~
I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
~By Fantasia Barrino ~
Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.
~By Arturo Toscanini ~
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
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