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 ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.
~By Klaus Fuchs ~
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
~By Florence Kelley ~
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
~By Juan Antonio Samaranch ~
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
~By Herman Melville ~
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
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 ~
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
~By Gerry Adams ~
Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
~By Alejo Carpentier ~
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
~By Omar Bongo ~
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 ~
Life is always struggle with eternal forces.
~By Eino Leino ~
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you.
~By Fred Frith ~
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.
~By Daniel Ortega ~
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 ~
'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.
~By Alexander Brome ~
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 ~
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 ~
Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
~By Jay Roach ~
The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.
~By Kim Il Sung ~
I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.
~By Molly Shannon ~
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 ~
I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
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 ~
The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.
~By Pete du Pont ~
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.
~By Arturo Toscanini ~
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 wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.
~By Kim Il Sung ~
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
~By J. Reuben Clark ~
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
~By Henry Moore ~
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 ~
If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.
~By Kim Dae Jung ~
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
~By Charlotte Davis Kasl ~
I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
~By Raj Kapoor ~
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 ~
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
~By Victor Hugo ~
My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
~By Zack de la Rocha ~
I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
~By Al Lewis ~
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 ~
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.
~By Don Johnson ~
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 ~
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
~By George Gurdjieff ~
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 ~
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 ~
So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.
~By Bobby Scott ~
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 business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
~By Richard Grimes ~
I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.
~By Ryne Sandberg ~
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
~By Martin Bormann ~
The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
~By Jose Marti ~
I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
~By Dennis Kucinich ~
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
~By Steve Buscemi ~
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 ~
Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
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 ~
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
~By E. M. Forster ~
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
~By Albert Camus ~
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.
~By Lion Feuchtwanger ~
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 ~
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 ~
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.
~By Leah Ward Sears ~
I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
~By Jim Bunning ~
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
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 ~
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
~By Al Lewis ~
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
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 do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.
~By Timothy Dalton ~
We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
~By Eric Cantona ~
Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
~By Og Mandino ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
~By Ian Botham ~
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 ~
There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
~By Bryan White ~
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
~By Richard Pryor ~
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
~By Horace ~
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