Struggle Quotes
-
It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
-
Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.
-
The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
-
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
-
During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.
-
In the late 1980s, a new revolt broke out, this time led by the fundamentalist FIS (Islamic Salvation Front). Many of its leaders were the kind of young Algerians who joined the struggle against the French occupiers in the 1950s.
-
Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
-
Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
-
It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.
-
The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.
-
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
-
I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country.
-
The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
-
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
-
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
-
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.
-
Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
-
I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
-
The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.
-
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
-
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
-
Since the communists cannot enter upon the decisive struggle between themselves and the bourgeoisie until the bourgeoisie is in power, it follows that it is in the interest of the communists to help the bourgeoisie to power as soon as possible in order the sooner to be able to overthrow it.
-
quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
-
It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.
