Struggle Quotes

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

Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.

My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.

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

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

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

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

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

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.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

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.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

So the lover must struggle for words.

To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

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

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.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.