Struggle Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.

  John Ross Macduff

  Kindness, Character, Sacrifice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 46), 1895.

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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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• War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Peace, Real, War

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• My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.

  Margaret Cho

  People, Century, Coming Out

  "Outing (And Why Gay Celebrities Need to Leave the Closet)" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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

  Ann Romney

  People, Certain, Knows

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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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• 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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• The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle, labor-union struggle-are tearing our world to pieces.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Hate, Our World, Class

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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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• These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

  William C. Bryant

  Fate, Aimless Life, Tides

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Crowded Street”

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• With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Women, Winning, Vanity

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.53, BookBaby

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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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• If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

  Nicole McKay

  Art, Bricks, Problem

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• As long as mankind is made up of independent individuals with free will, there cannot be any social status quo. Men will develop new urges, and these will give rise to new problems, which will require ever new solutions. Human life implies adventure, and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

  Rene Dubos

  Adventure, Independent, Men

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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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• ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

  Saul Bellow

  Sleep, Fighting, Night

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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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• America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Blessing, America, Choices

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• We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Mma, Life Struggle

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• The issue isn't what you're struggling with, it's how you deal with what you're struggling with

  Gary Inrig

  Issues, Deals

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• If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

  Dorothy Day

  Pain, Believe, Evil

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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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• 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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