Quotes about struggle
struggle people independence
The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives. Brooks Atkinson
struggle mean successful
We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable. Brooke Shields
struggle writing tools
I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle. Edwidge Danticat
struggle writing way
Writing is the way I participate in the struggle. Edwidge Danticat
struggle embarrassing meltdowns
I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful. Benedict Cumberbatch
struggle love-life our-love
We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians. Beau Willimon
struggle law practice
The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology. August Wilson
struggle color generations
It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. Audre Lorde
struggle mean feminist
I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable. Audre Lorde
struggle issues feminism
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. Audre Lorde
struggle winning opportunity
The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day. Arthur Scargill
struggle cutting college
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. Arne Duncan
struggle book writing
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy. Antony Sher
struggle night people
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior. Antonin Artaud
struggle sacrifice effort
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating. Frederic Bastiat
struggle looks retrospect
Everything that happens to us can be looked at as a gift. Although it's quite difficult when you're in the middle of a hard struggle with something, it's hard to see it as a gift, but in retrospect, we can almost always look back and say, "Oh, I see why I had to go through that." Shakti Gawain
struggle hero important
Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but at the same time, it's also important to tell stories about women's triumphs, women being slackers, women being criminals, women being heroes. Diablo Cody
struggle data understanding
We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information. Dee Hock
struggle years community
We are at the very point in time when a 400-year old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and ethics such as the world has never know, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed. Dee Hock
struggle years age
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born. Dee Hock
struggle church exhausted
The Church is designed to nourish the imperfect, the struggling, and the exhausted. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
struggle men battle
There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle. Diana Gabaldon
struggle voice ego
At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly, and you don’t have to struggle or force situations to go your way. It is only your ego mind that is fearful. When you surrender to spirit and listen to the voice of your deeper intelligence, you free yourself from fear and release the obstacles your ego has created. Deepak Chopra
struggle government office
If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work. Abraham Lincoln
struggle men judging
I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing. Abraham Lincoln
struggle today environment
The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. Abraham Lincoln
struggle growth mind
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine. Anne Sullivan
struggle fate guilty
In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity. Albert Schweitzer
struggle moving self-confidence
By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin. Augustus
struggle nsa pay-the-price
Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security. Arthur L. Herman
struggle important trying
Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
struggle mean language
In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean. Arthur Koestler
struggle easy dies
To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life. Art Spiegelman