Struggle Quotes - Page 24

• For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, World, Action

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Children, Hate, Mean

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 314), 1895.

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• Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Evil, Waiting, Affliction

  Frederick William Robertson (1868). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.331

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• No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Ideas, Self

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.912, Bantam

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• Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Reality, Worry, Vision

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.

  Germaine Greer

  Motherhood, Umbilical Cord, Would Be

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being contented; one is never short of a little But men want always to be powerful and famous So that their fortune rests on a solid foundation And they can spend a placid life in opulence. There isn't a hope of it; to attain great honours You have to struggle along a dangerous way And even when you reach the top there is envy Which can strike you down like lightning into Tartarus. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level.

  Lucretius

  Powerful, Men, Honour You

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.167, Psychology Press

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• The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.

  Aeschylus

  Men, Hot Headed, Justice

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• We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.

  Dorothy Day

  Sleep, Reality, People

  "Month of the Dead". "Catholic Worker", November 1959.

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• Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

  George Meredith

  Men, Reflection, Drawing

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.4327, Library of Alexandria

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• The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.

  Simone Weil

  Innovation, Opponents, Defenders

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.166, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Mitt der Dummheit k a« mpfen G o« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Stupidity, Vain

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• Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Beautiful, Life And Death, World

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

  Emile Zola

  Blood, Good Man, Dynasty

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• A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Women, Passion, Land

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.92, Penguin

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• Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.

  Maxim Gorky

  Lying, Ambition, Men

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• Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

  Paulo Freire

  Organization, People, Decision

  "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 4, Organization, 1968.

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• The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Darkness, Naked

  "Nikos Kazantzakis" by Helen Kazantzakis, (p. 507), 1968.

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• Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

  John Bolton

  Mass Destruction, Half, Weapons

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• I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

  Jessie J

  Artist, Made, Glad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

  Anton Chekhov

  Country, Men, Effort

  "Uncle Vanya". Ply by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sleep, Long, Saws

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.160, Delphi Classics

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• Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he not in danger of repeating himself, and also of becoming an egotist? Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be quite deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write to her dictation?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Real, Writing

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Enemy, Vain, Has Beens

  'Say not the struggle naught availeth' (1855)

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• There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Class, Hatred, Mind

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.37, Vintage

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