struggle quotes

“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”

— Fidel Castro

“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.”

— Robert Burns

“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”

— George Orwell

“We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”

— Andre Gide

“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”

— Og Mandino

“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.”

— Horace

“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ”

— Karl Marx

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.”

— Victor Hugo

“In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world. ”

— Franz Kafka

“You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“So the lover must struggle for words. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“The struggle is eternal. The tribe increase. Somebody else carries on.”

— Ella Baker

“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.”

— Maya Angelou

“If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.”

— Clive Staples Lewis

“Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.”

— Barack Obama

“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.”

— Barack Obama

“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.”

— Marilyn Manson

“I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.”

— Michelle Obama

“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”

— Blaise Pascal

“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.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

“It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.”

— Bertrand Russell

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”

— John Steinbeck

“Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!”

— Angelina Jolie