Quotes about struggle
struggle responsibility volunteer
I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals. Marian Wright Edelman
struggle feel-better work-out
When I do Pilates, or when I do work out, I feel better all day. Yet I still struggle to keep it on my schedule. Maria Bello
struggle government survival
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle men companionship
I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle careers rights
Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights. Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle destiny men
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late. Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle sacrifice progress
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . . Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle alternatives civil-rights
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march... Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle angel men
the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power. Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle home europe
America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America. Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle night civilization
When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born. Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle police-violence american-dream
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle hamburgers doe
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger? Martin Luther King, Jr.
struggle winning people
We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds. Mikhail Gorbachev
struggle water laughing
If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect Irvin D. Yalom
struggle men creative
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story. Iris Murdoch
struggle ideas people
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them. Idries Shah
struggle fighting winning
The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win. I. F. Stone
struggle opportunity offering
Clean energy is about offering people the opportunity to do what's right for themselves and the people they love. It's about reducing the pollution that makes people sick. It's about helping the low-income families struggling to pay their gas and electricity bills. Gloria Reuben
struggle rain alaska
It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair. Gloria Stuart
struggle collective-effort organization
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights Gloria Steinem
struggle actors stuck
If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life. Harry Morgan
struggle fighting korea
First of all, it is clear that our efforts in Korea can blunt the will of the Chinese Communists to continue the struggle. The United Nations forces have put up a tremendous fight in Korea and have inflicted very heavy casualties on the enemy. Our forces are stronger now than they have been before. These are plain facts which may discourage the Chinese Communists from continuing their attack. Harry S Truman
struggle writing perspective
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective. J. K. Rowling
struggle broken soul
Personally, I'd have welcomed a dementor attack. A deadly struggle for my soul would have broken the monotony nicely. J. K. Rowling
struggle sweat verbs
He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the H. G. Wells
struggle law agony
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me. H. G. Wells
struggle safety morality
Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety H. L. Mencken
struggle hypocrite men
Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at that disgusting game he must prevail at the cost of his self-respect. Not many superior men make the attempt. The average great captain of the rabble, when he is not simply a weeper over irremediable wrongs, is a hypocrite so far gone that he is unconscious of his own hypocrisy.. a slimy fellow, offensive to the nose. H. L. Mencken
struggle space humanity
Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time. Guglielmo Marconi
struggle writing typewriters
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 Guillermo Cabrera Infante
struggle cycling excellence
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. Greg LeMond
struggle people trying
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. Greg Kinnear