Struggle Quotes - Page 11

• I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

  Robert Breault

  Equality, People, Looks

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• Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

  Charles Kennedy

  Opportunity, Should Have, Further Education

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• People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  People, Mind, Ends

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Essentials, Three

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.181, Best Books on

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• The future struggles that it may not become the past.

  Publilius Syrus

  Future, Past, May

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• There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

  William Ralph Inge

  Fighting, Hands, Law

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• Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Water, Looks

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (letter to Lord Chesterfield, 7 Feb. 1755)

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• The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Choices, Political, Elements

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• The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Home, Triumph, Conservative

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• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stupid, Men, Hands

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.93, Routledge

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• Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence, --the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism strives towards a social organization which will establish well-being for all.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Men, Organization

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Thinking, Gist, Looks

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• Why will we struggle to attain, and strive,
  When all we gain is but an empty dream?--
  Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem
  To end it all and let who will survive;
  To find at last all beauty is but dust;
  That love and sorrow are the very same;
  That joy is only suffering's sweeter name;
  And sense is but the synonym of lust.
  Far better, yea, to me it seems to die;
  To set glad lips against the lips of Death--
  The only thing God gives that comforteth,
  The only thing we do not find a lie.

  Madison Cawein

  Death, Dream, Lying

  Madison Julius Cawein, “The Land Of Illusion”

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• Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Reality, Way

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.26, Penguin

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• Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

  Willard Gaylin

  Jealousy, Envy, Survival

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.

  Charles Portis

  Heart, Air, Goes On

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• Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a mixed experience. I hated them because they separated me from the dearest thing in the world-the struggle of my people for rebirth. At the same time, they were a blessing because I had what is so rare in this world-the opportunity of thinking about basic issues, the opportunity of examining afresh the beliefs I held.

  Sukarno

  Opportunity, Thinking, Blessing

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• I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

  Eugenio Montale

  Believe, Two, Evil

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• In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Energy, Development, Littles

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• The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

  Terry Eagleton

  Heart, Political, Feminism

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  Carl Bernstein

  People, House, Black

  Carl Bernstein (1989). “Loyalties: A Son's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster

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• At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

  David Puttnam

  Art, People, Age

  "A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

  James F. Byrnes

  Military, People, Germany

  James F. Byrnes (1947). “Speaking Frankl.y”

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• At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Sleep, Soldier, Revolution

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• You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

  Elia Kazan

  Responsibility, People

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