Struggle Quotes - page 27

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)
The next simplest feature that is common to all that comes before the mind, and consequently, the second category, is the element of Struggle. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic feats which a practiced writer might struggle for hours to achieve. View quote
Henry Miller
The Happiest peoples, it is said, are those which have no history. Those who have a history, those who have made history seem only to have emphazied through their acomplishments the eternality of struggle. These disappear too eventually, just as those who made no effort, who were content to merely live & enjoy. View quote
Henry Miller
Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we've lost the habit of falling asleep. View quote
Henry Miller
I tell you, struggle is what is missing in the lives of most young people today. If they think I'm going to support them while they create great works of art, then they've missed the point of my work, of my life! In the process of becoming a writer or an artist one has to be willing to starve. Struggle is the most invaluable experience of all. Suffering seems to be the inevitable fate of the creative sensitive types. Poverty, disease, death, unrequited love affairs, and disappointments of every sort fan the flame of the artistic spirit. The greatest works of art were not created by spoiled brats. They were born for the most part out of a sense of despair, and if not despair then just plain hard work. Somewhere along the line the artist learns the art of transformation. View quote
Henry Miller
You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. View quote
Nick Nolte
There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle. View quote
Christina Applegate
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. View quote
E. M. Forster
Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. (Philip Pullman)
She said that all the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed. View quote
Philip Pullman
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. View quote
Aaron Klug
Anyone who is of a thoughtful, philisophical cast of mind will occasionaly be struck by the appearance of certain organizing principles of history. The forms these principles seem to take inevitably depends upon one's specific obsession. For a mornachist, history is a struggle of classes of economic civil war. An agriculturalist sees the dynamic of populations, land, and availability of food; a philosopher might speak of the will to power or the will to sythesis; a theologian of the will of God. View quote
Matthew Stover
This time the struggle is for our freedom, this time the struggle is for our independence! Joy bangla! View quote
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I care deeply about those who struggle to get by - but I believe the best thing to do is help them stand on their own two feet. And no, that's not saying, "You're on your own," but, "We are on your side, helping you be all you can." And I believe in something for something; not something for nothing. View quote
David Cameron
Suffer yourself to be tempted within so that you may exhaust in the struggle your downward propensities. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Mugabe fought and liberated his country from colonists. But I am here as a guest of the Zimbabwe people. I am not a personal guest of Mugabe. And veterans of the liberation struggle are well aware of this fact. View quote
Mengistu Haile Mariam
The very fact that after a while, an increasing proportion of the urban population was "native," i. e., born in cities rather than in the rural areas, and hence more able to take advantage of the possibilities of city life in preparation for the economic struggle, meant a better chance for organization and adaptation, a better basis for securing greater income shares than was possible for the newly "immigrant" population coming from the countryside or from abroad. View quote
Simon Kuznets
I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero. (Emil Cioran)
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. View quote
Frantz Fanon
I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same. View quote
Mohammed Omar
Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle. View quote
Nas
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. View quote
Maya Angelou