Struggle Quotes - page 3

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. (Friedrich Schiller)
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. View quote
Rebecca West
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. View quote
Rebecca West
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind. View quote
Margaret Fuller
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think. View quote
Richard Pryor
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. View quote
Albert Camus
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. View quote
Will Smith
Life is one long struggle in the dark. View quote
Lucretius
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. (Isadora Duncan)
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. View quote
Brené Brown
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation. View quote
Émile Zola
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. View quote
Eric Hoffer
This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognition, but rather a vicious circle which encloses both the master and the servant. Do the technicians rule, or is their rule that of the others, who rely on the technicians as their planners and executors? View quote
Herbert Marcuse
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought. View quote
Mark Kingwell
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. View quote
Charles A. Beard
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. (Martin Buber)
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. View quote
Milan Kundera
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on. View quote
Patrick Carman