struggle quotes

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

“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.”

“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

“In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.”

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Oprah Winfrey

“Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.”

— Ansel Adams

“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

— Edmund Burke

“He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”

— Edmund Burke

“The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.”

— Stephen Covey

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

— Napoleon Hill

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