We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Mankind advances only through struggle.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
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 ~
You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.
~By James Cagney ~
Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.
~By Joe Slovo ~
Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.
~By Donal Logue ~
I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
~By Barry White ~
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
So the lover must struggle for words.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
~By Wavy Gravy ~
We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.
~By Bulent Ecevit ~
There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.
~By Michael Steele ~
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
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 ~
Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
~By Bai Ling ~
In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.
~By Lorin Maazel ~
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
~By Maxine Waters ~
I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.
~By Colin Firth ~
Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
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 ~
Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
~By Iris Chang ~
I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
~By Al Lewis ~
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
~By Swami Vivekananda ~
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 ~
The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.
~By Brit Hume ~
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
~By Danny Glover ~
I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
~By Ana Castillo ~
In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.
~By Lin Biao ~
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.
~By John Hersey ~
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement.
~By Hans Frank ~
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
~By Lucretius ~
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
~By A. Philip Randolph ~
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
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 ~
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.
~By Nicolas Roeg ~
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.
~By Lindsay Wagner ~
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
~By Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~
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 ~
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
~By Zalmay Khalilzad ~
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
~By C. L. R. James ~
It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
~By Ty Cobb ~
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
~By Manmohan Singh ~
I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.
~By Melissa Leo ~
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.
~By Whitey Herzog ~
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
~By Greg LeMond ~
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
~By Golda Meir ~
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
~By Gerry Adams ~
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.
~By Andrew Bernstein ~
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things.
~By Guy Pearce ~
The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
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 ~
It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
~By Audre Lorde ~
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
~By Washington Irving ~
This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.
~By Howard Dean ~
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 ~
Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
~By Olusegun Obasanjo ~
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 ~
The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
~By Nick Clooney ~
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
~By John Acton ~
The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.
~By Jeanne Elium ~
Certain struggles never end.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
~By Robert Burns ~
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 ~
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
~By Karl Radek ~
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
~By Basil C. Hume ~
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 ~
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
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 ~
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~
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 ~
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 ~
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
~By Karl Liebknecht ~
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
~By Paul Tournier ~
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
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