Struggle Quotes

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Sigmund Freud

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
Thomas Hardy

The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Ezra Pound

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.
Alice Paul

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
Stevie Wonder

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

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
Robert Johnson

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Angela Davis

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
Langston Hughes

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
David Hume

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.
Roger Waters

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Henry Rollins

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
Michael Collins

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett

Not tho' the soldier knew. Someone had blunder'd : Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the wire. This is your moment. Own it.

The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.
Dave Grohl

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.
David Smith

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.
Sid Vicious

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
Steve Prefontaine