Struggle Quotes

• So, it was really important that I go do the necessary research. In doing the research, I spent time with a lot of medics and women down at Fort Bliss. I went through an intensive medical course there, with other medics. And then, I really sat down with all of the women that had been deployed, or were getting ready to deploy again. The common thread for them was family, and what a struggle it was for them to come home and face their children and flip a switch.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Important
  • Children
  • Home

• I think guys, because we share a history growing up of being stereotyped, because there are fewer of us in the dance world, that contributes early on to a bond among us. A lot of us share stories of being harassed or teased growing up - there's a certain deep camaraderie that's formed through that shared struggle.

  

  Sascha Radetsky
  • Dance
  • Bond
  • Camaraderie

• Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron’s struggle cease.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Long
  • Struggle

• My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Today

• I hope that people will realize that the struggle to make a life better with a sibling is worth it.

  

  Marie Brenner
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Brother

• 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.

  

  Alejo Carpentier
  • Music
  • Success
  • Faith

• I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Fall
  • Victory
  • Gains

• Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Opposition
  • Collectivization
  • Stalinists

• To become 'ideologists of the working class' (Lenin), 'organic intellectuals' of the proletariat (Gramsci), intellectuals have to carry out a radical revolution in their ideas: a long, painful and difficult re-education. An endless external and internal struggle.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Long
  • Education
  • Revolution

• My family has equally suffered abductions, attacks and life threats, but I have continued my struggle for justice.

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • Life
  • Family
  • Justice

• Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.

  

  Colin S. Smith
  • God
  • Love
  • Lives

• Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children's lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to beparents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.

  

  Augustus Napier
  • Children
  • Struggle
  • Parenting

• Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Struggle
  • Victory

• What nourishes me also destroys me.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Struggle

• The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

  

  Rene Dubos
  • Environment
  • Process
  • Disease

• Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.

  

  Cathy Marie Buchanan
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Past

• In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • American
  • Stop
  • Failure

• Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs. That's blackness to me.

  

  Luvvie Ajayi
  • Struggle

• Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist - except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Earth
  • Giving
  • Hours

• Goodie Mob is my passion, the core of me, the fight, the struggle. I'm still as much of an underdog as I ever was, and my music is still as anti-establishment as it ever was. I want to satisfy that rebel side. It's not null and void. I'm a whole being, and I'm just coming back full circle.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Rebel

• I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

  

  William Kamkwamba
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Struggle

• 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
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Doubt

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