Quotes about struggle
struggle fate swim
Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive Cassandra Clare
struggle love-is iron
It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory. George Eliot
struggle perfectly-good light
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
struggle mean careers
The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don't have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I'm a great actress, because I've already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy. Gabourey Sidibe
struggle believe best-things
Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
struggle mean revolution
If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself. Frank Knight
struggle games two
Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds. George Hickenlooper
struggle dark winning
We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with despair all the time. But I'm not going to let it win. It is incumbent upon all of us that at the same time we recognize how dark the future is, we also recognize the absolute imperative of resistance in every form possible. Chris Hedges
struggle ecosystems understanding
To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.
struggle winning sea
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas? Isaac Watts
struggle grief writing
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. Isabel Allende
struggle world definitions
I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over! Fyodor Dostoevsky
struggle boredom vain
Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. Friedrich Nietzsche
struggle dark men
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.
struggle class giving
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps. Frantz Fanon
struggle stories ends
I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end. Jeanette Winterson
struggle rights world
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed. Jim Costa
struggle artist made
I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now. Jessie J
struggle men eight
Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status. Jewel
struggle moving home
My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.
struggle expectations people
I've seen so many people in my life struggle tremendously to fit into those boxes or to live up to those expectations or pressures put upon them by whatever society's concept of 'normal' is. I get frustrated by rules and regulations. I'm frustrated by things that are exclusive to one particular life choice. Jennifer Westfeldt
struggle order pay
Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs. Jeb Hensarling
struggle taken steps
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. George Bernard Shaw
struggle ideas perfection
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that. Gelsey Kirkland
struggle support proud
If you're out there and need help, please seek it. Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support. Jared Padalecki
struggle support insecurity
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. Christopher Eccleston
struggle past simple
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify! Henry David Thoreau
struggle past views
Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view. Guy Finley
struggle fate intelligent
Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy. Honore de Balzac
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