Constant Struggle Quotes

• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Success, Struggle, Inspiration

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  "Nobody Knows My Name". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Never under estimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is an ongoing struggle and you have to commit to winning if you are to succeed.

  Bob Proctor

  Success, Struggle, Fall

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 08, 2013

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• If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

  Geoff Hickson

  Motivational, Struggle, Self Improvement

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• All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.155, Penguin

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• Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Struggle, Acceptance

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.21, Penguin

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• To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

  George Orwell

  Courage, Truth, Struggle

  Tribune 22 Mar. 1946, "In Front of your Nose"

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• Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.

  Pol Pot

  Regret, Struggle, Hands

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lying, Struggle, Heart

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.264, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Nature, Lying

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.307, University of Georgia Press

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• The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Wise, Struggle, Intelligent

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• The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Struggle, Mind, Earth

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• The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

  Booker T. Washington

  Struggle, Race, Progress

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  Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

  Sherman Alexie

  Struggle, Community, Life Is

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.127, Random House

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• Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Struggle, Criticism, Doe

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• I lived in great poverty as a child and young woman, and I used to think of money and how to make money as a means to get away from the constant struggle to survive - as freedom. Now I know it isn't freedom. It's not a solution, but a new problem. It comes with its own challenges and tremendous obligations.

  Leslie Parrish

  Children, Struggle, Mean

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• Most actors don't know what they're going to do next, so you get into this thing where you have to force yourself to have another life outside of acting. And then, as soon as you start something in this sort of normal life that you're trying to live, you get a job. So you have this constant struggle because you want to be able to commit to things and to finish things in your life, but then you also want to be able to act.

  Winona Ryder

  Jobs, Struggle, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

  Thomas Adcock

  New York, Struggle, Causes

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• Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Hos poetry strikes many parallels--the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle-- and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening reading.

  Sam Hamill

  War, Reading, Struggle

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• Theres a constant struggle going on about how much will be illegal and how much you will be free to take. Can we open the pharmacies? Can we put Valium and Percodan and those sorts of things out on the shelves? I wouldn't take it. I don't know.

  Stephen King

  Struggle, Pharmacy, Valium

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Struggle, Angel

  Source: collider.com

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• A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Struggle, Achievement

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.

  Kent Nerburn

  Marriage, Children, Father

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• There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Taken, Struggle

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