Top struggle Quotes Collection

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Image of Lisa Jewell
I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And now she's pregnant and in love with a man who'll never love her the way she loves him. It's a series of vicious circles, and the only way to stop it is to find someone who loves you the same. No power struggle. No insecurities. Just friendship. Because you can never be friends with someone if you love them too much.
- Lisa Jewell
Collection: Struggle
Image of Aeschylus
The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.
- Aeschylus
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Image of David Foster Wallace
No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.
- David Foster Wallace
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Image of Bernhard Schlink
She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.
- Bernhard Schlink
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Image of Ignazio Silone
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
- Ignazio Silone
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Image of Andrew Wyeth
My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.
- Andrew Wyeth
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Image of Harold Brodkey
Often writing is like a struggle to get back to a kind of belated, quite impure virginity.
- Harold Brodkey
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Image of Marina Warner
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or trialogue, or polylogue: many, many, many voices, going back a long way. The cultural picture is much more mutually enriching at many different levels, manufacturers...absolutely, design and calligraphy. It's an amazing amount of cross-interests between people.
- Marina Warner
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Image of Boris Spassky
Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.
- Boris Spassky
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Image of Bobby Sands
They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.
- Bobby Sands
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Image of Bobby Sands
Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal
- Bobby Sands
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Image of Elizabeth Moon
Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.
- Elizabeth Moon
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Image of Malcolm Turnbull
What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.
- Malcolm Turnbull
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Image of Eric Schlosser
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.
- Eric Schlosser
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Image of Bill Moyers
There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.
- Bill Moyers
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Image of Aimee Mullins
People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.
- Aimee Mullins
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Image of Steven Pressfield
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.
- Steven Pressfield
Collection: Struggle
Image of Harold Ramis
Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and even if they get it, they find that it's either not what they wanted, or it comes with so many unwanted consequences. We're always shut off from pure joy.
- Harold Ramis
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Image of Elon Musk
When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it.
- Elon Musk
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Image of Mary Bono
The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.
- Mary Bono
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Image of Thomas Brooks
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
- Thomas Brooks
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Image of Florence Nightingale
Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.
- Florence Nightingale
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Image of David Lee Roth
The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.
- David Lee Roth
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Image of Jack Weatherford
The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution of money is to control the wealth, resources, and people of the world.
- Jack Weatherford
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Image of Joss Whedon
The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell.
- Joss Whedon
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Image of Carl Rogers
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.
- Carl Rogers
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Image of Thorstein Veblen
The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.
- Thorstein Veblen
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Image of Po Bronson
We've all lost something along the way.
- Po Bronson
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Image of Holly Lisle
Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.
- Holly Lisle
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Image of Sidney Poitier
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
- Sidney Poitier
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Image of Samuel Smiles
All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
- Samuel Smiles
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Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Image of Edward Said
Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.
- Edward Said
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Image of John Breaux
Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.
- John Breaux
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Image of Benjamin Rush
Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."
- Benjamin Rush
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Image of Henry Rollins
Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
- Henry Rollins
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Image of Mike Tyson
Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.
- Mike Tyson
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Image of Tanya Tucker
I have always been the life of the party. When I got to the point where I wasn't anymore, I knew something was wrong. I didn't know what it was. Once you figure it out, you can start to fix the problem. It's a day-to-day struggle.
- Tanya Tucker
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Image of Ingmar Bergman
I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
- Ingmar Bergman
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Image of John O. Brennan
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.
- John O. Brennan
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Image of Yahtzee Croshaw
I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life
- Yahtzee Croshaw
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Image of Nelson Rockefeller
There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.
- Nelson Rockefeller
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Image of Viola Davis
Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
- Viola Davis
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Image of Aimee Bender
Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.
- Aimee Bender
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Image of Ralph Nader
Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.
- Ralph Nader
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Image of Jack Zipes
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.
- Jack Zipes
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Image of Gilbert Sorrentino
On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.
- Gilbert Sorrentino
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Image of Brooke Shields
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
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Image of Anita Shreve
Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.
- Anita Shreve
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Image of Anita Shreve
The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
- Anita Shreve
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