Constant Struggle Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

  Noam Chomsky

  Struggle, Long, Madison

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Struggle, Hero

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• I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

  Henry Hopper

  Integrity, Struggle, Creative

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• Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is not the in thing, it is harder to break someone like me. And I'm a woman too, it's ridiculous.

  Syleena Johnson

  Struggle, Artist, Everyday

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• Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.

  Joshua Ferris

  Struggle, Character, Emotional

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• Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

  Willie Robertson

  Struggle, Kids, Constant

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• Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

  Eric Burdon

  Struggle, Winning, Evil

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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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• My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.

  Anchee Min

  Memories, Loneliness, Struggle

  Anchee Min (2004). “Empress Orchid”, Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Imagine driving a car that isn't working well. When you step on the gas the car sometimes lurches forward and sometimes doesn't respond. When you blow the horn it sounds blaring. The brakes sometimes slow the car, but not always. The blinkers work occasionally, the steering is erratic, and the speedometer is inaccurate.
  You are engaged in a constant struggle to keep the car on the road, and it is difficult to concentrate on anything else.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Struggle, Blow, Car

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• I had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant struggle— you look up at the moon and wonder if that person is looking at it too. I was trying to write love songs that weren’t sappy Ben Affleck movie songs, but kind of a … man’s love songs

  Caleb Followill

  Long Distance Relationship, Song, Struggle

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• My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

  Don Henley

  Struggle, Creative, Balance

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• The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

  John C. Maxwell

  Struggle, Achievement, Levels

  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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• Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Struggle, Dedication, Law

  Olusegun Obasanjo, Ad' Obe Obe (2004). “A new dawn: a collection of speeches of President Olusegun Obasanjo”, Spectrum Books Ltd

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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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