Struggle Quotes - Page 14

• Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Running, Rights, Resistance

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.

  Rachel Cohn

  Real, People, Perfection

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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

  Character, Emotional, Names

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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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• I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Prayer, Helping, Christ

  "Aaron Rodgers Takes Jab at Russell Wilson, Says 'God Is a Packers Fan'" by Christine Thomasos, www.christianpost.com. September 23, 2015.

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• The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Meaningful, Able, Existence

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.102, Souvenir Press

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• Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Salvation

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• A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

  John Steinbeck

  Animal, Community, Looks

  Edward Flanders Ricketts, John Steinbeck (1978). “The Outer shores”

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• The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is a story of the ideals of equality, fraternity and social and economic justice struggling against the forces of domination, exploitation, intolerance and tyranny.

  Fatima Jinnah

  Inspiration, Justice, Pakistan

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• Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing history is writing the soul of the past… so that the present generation may learn from past mistakes, be inspired by their ancestor’s sacrifices, and take responsibility for the future.

  Epifanio de los Santos

  Mistake, Eye, Responsibility

  "Silent storms: inspiring lives of 101 great Filipinos". Book by Fernando A. Bernardo, p. 37 - 38, 2000.

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• Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
  To the eternal sun, I render back
  These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Pain, Past

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.435

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• Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That said, Night Train to Lisbon is a very long, ambitious book that's feverishly overwritten. (...) Think of W.G. Sebald recast for the mass market: stripped of nuance, cooked at high temperature and pounded home, clause after clause. Some of the clumsiness derives from Barbara Harshav's inelegant translation -- we're often aware of her struggle -- but she can't be blamed for the pervasive bloat.

  Michelle Huneven

  Spiritual, Book, Home

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• Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.

  Lindsey Vonn

  White, Perfect, Behind The Scenes

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• For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Betrayal, Rights, Practice

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• The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

  Eric Hoffer

  Shelter, Poverty, Desperate

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these are usually only temporary measures. The greatest blessing we offer others may be the belief we have in their struggle for freedom, the courage to support and accompany them as they determine for themselves the strength that will become their refuge and the foundation for their lives. I think it is especially important to believe in someone at a time when they cannot yet believe in themselves. Then your belief will become their lifeline.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Friendship, Believe, Thinking

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• The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Real, Simple, Facts

  FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jan 27, 2017

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• For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Perseverance, Children, Mean

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• A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Men, Stronger

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• When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

  Horace

  Obscure, Ends, Brevity

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• I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Evil

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• And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Heart, Fighting, Fate

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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Blow, Order

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

  Malcolm X

  Culture, Weapons, Indispensable

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.

  Ann Romney

  People, Certain, Knows

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