Quotes about struggle
struggled
We struggled offensively. We didn't make enough contact. We couldn't deliver.
struggle heart independent
There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle. Bill Moyers
struggle citizens benefits
Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.
struggle justice social-justice
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed! Bertolt Brecht
struggle men years
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
struggle fighting thinking
You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done. Bernard Hopkins
struggle government political
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. Bernard Baruch
struggle years dancing
I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from. Cassandra Peterson
struggle warrior giving
To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it. Carlos Castaneda
struggle warrior silence
The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.
struggle warrior winning
The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior is geared only to struggle, and every struggle is a warrior's last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him. In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wages his battle, knowing that his intent is impeccable, a warrior laughs and laughs.
struggle people house
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice. Carl Bernstein
struggle home cards
But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played. C. S. Lewis
struggle eye men
who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The words compelle intrare, compel them to come in, have been so abused by wicked men that we shudder at them; but, properly understood, they plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and His compulsion is our liberation.
struggle fate opportunity
What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
struggle feminism speak
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle. Agnes Varda
struggle fighting cinema
I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
struggle independent bird
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you. Charlotte Bronte
struggle creativity creative
It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there. Charlie Haden
struggle fighting humanity
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world! Charlie Chaplin
struggle long parent
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live. Charles Taylor
struggle long new-life
I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle. Cheryl Strayed
struggle men hands
I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough. Charlaine Harris
struggle moving writing
You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic. Charlie Kaufman
struggle doubt wish
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. Charles Sanders Peirce
struggle passion self
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. Charles Horton Cooley
struggle mind earth
The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth. Benjamin Hoff
struggle thinking illusion
So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion. Bob Marley
struggle messages reggae
This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.
struggle fighting destiny
Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble.
struggle men jamaica
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
struggle trust-in-god testing
Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God. Bruce Wilkinson
struggle purple hands
I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple. Bryce Dallas Howard