struggle quotes

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

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You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. The power of vulnerability.

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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

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The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

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Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

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It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

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Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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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.

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The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

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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.

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The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

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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.

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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

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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.

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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.

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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

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I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

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We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

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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!

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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.

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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

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Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

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The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

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The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

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Through struggle to the stars.

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Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

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I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

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I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

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Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

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Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.

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My life is a struggle.

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Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

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Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

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It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

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When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

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I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

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Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

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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.

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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

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I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

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Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

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I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

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It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

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The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

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The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.

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Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.

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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

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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.

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When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in this environment and how her life changed. It immediately resonated.

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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

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It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

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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.

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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

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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.

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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

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And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others

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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.

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I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

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The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

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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.

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However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

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The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

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There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.

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This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

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We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

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The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.

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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

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The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

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It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

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It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

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With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

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A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.

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