All in all this is a difficult political struggle which will go on for years, in which our people won't die anymore; I'm not sure how much we will be able to win, but I'm certain that we won't loose anything that we have now.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~
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 ~
I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
~By Missy Elliot ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
~By Otto Weininger ~
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 ~
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 ~
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
~By Oliver Stone ~
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
~By Steven Brust ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.
~By Ben McKenzie ~
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 ~
Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.
~By Mike Gordon ~
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.
~By Van Morrison ~
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
~By Albert Bandura ~
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.
~By Joe Slovo ~
I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
~By Zinedine Zidane ~
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 ~
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
~By Ernst Mach ~
Mankind advances only through struggle.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
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 ~
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 ~
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
~By Dean Koontz ~
I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.
~By Chaka Khan ~
Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
~By Al Lewis ~
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
~By Jesse Owens ~
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
~By Joe Murray ~
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 ~
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
~By Al Lewis ~
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.
~By Michael Steele ~
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
~By Martin van Creveld ~
Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!
~By Angelina Jolie ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Life is always struggle with eternal forces.
~By Eino Leino ~
The second song is called 'Easy As Life,' which really describes the complete conflict of the whole story, her struggle of being in love with the enemy and also being in love with her people.
~By Deborah Cox ~
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
~By L. Sprague de Camp ~
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.
~By Arturo Toscanini ~
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
~By Danny Glover ~
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 ~
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
~By Louise J. Kaplan ~
I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
~By Denzel Washington ~
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
~By Herman Melville ~
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
~By Coretta Scott King ~
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
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 ~
Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
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 ~
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.
~By John Breaux ~
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
~By Henry Moore ~
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.
~By Kim Il Sung ~
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
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.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
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 ~
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 ~
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
~By Milan Kundera ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
~By Larry Harvey ~
My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
~By Ahmed Ben Bella ~
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
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 ~
I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.
~By Rod Taylor ~
I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
~By Neil Finn ~
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
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.
~By James Brown ~
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
~By Earl Browder ~
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
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