Struggle Quotes - Page 28

• I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.

  John Howard Lawson

  Men, Feet, Filth

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• He who is a beginner on the way must not be brought to practise the commandments by kindness alone, but must more often be induced to continue the struggle by being rigorously reminded of God's judgment. In this way he will not only be moved by love to desire what is divine, but will be moved by fear to avoid what is evil. For 'I will sing to Thee, O Lord, of mercy and judgment' (Ps. 101:1 LXX). He will sing to God charmed by love, and steeled by fear he will have strength for the song.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Song, Kindness

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• There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Life Changing, Waiting, Inspire

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• As for kids who are struggling personally, ignore the bullies! Who cares what they think? A lot of the time, they're not thinking, so you shouldn't take their words to heart. Ignore, ignore, ignore, and keep pushing forward.

  Nolan Gould

  Heart, Kids, Thinking

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• Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fantasy, Discworld, Madmen

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• As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!

  T. B. Joshua

  Destiny, Overcoming, Trouble

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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, Hero, Dark

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• We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Thinking, Body, Resistance

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.13, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

  Julia Alvarez

  Mean, Love Is, Deeper

  Julia Alvarez (2010). “In the Time of the Butterflies”, p.147, Algonquin Books

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• Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.

  Bela Karolyi

  Powerful, Challenges, Pushing Each Other

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• Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

  David Gemmell

  Law, Agony, Birth

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• The question is not whether the good outweighs the bad. The question is whether or not the good excuses the bad. And, in my opinion, it doesn't. It never does. As long as wrongs are being commited, in any quantity, and in any ratio to the amount of good that is being done, it is both irresponsible and wrong not to bring awareness to it, and struggle to put an end to it.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Long, Doe

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• When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Childhood, May, Gestures

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• I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

  Lucas Neff

  Country, Epic, Class

  "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

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• The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.

  Robert Mandel

  Winning, Giving, Way

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• I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Heart, Unions, Importance

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• A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Character, Interesting, Guy

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• Last night I was struggling with a stomach ache, but [the trainer] gave me some medicine, an IV and I felt good out there today.

  Taurean Green

  Night, Medicine, Lasts

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• The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

  Harvey Cox

  World, Comic, Ignite

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• The refugee resettlement program is a kind of worldwide business. There is pressure to keep the numbers up even as you are struggling with the people who do come in.

  Romano L. Mazzoli

  Numbers, People, Immigration

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• The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Fighting, Past, Hands

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Strong, Butterfly, Artist

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Strong, Order, Suffering

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• Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

  Hal Elrod

  Wake Up, Development, Waking Up Early

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jun 25, 2013

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• So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.

  Lynn Andrews

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  Lynn V. Andrews (1993). “Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews”, Harper San Francisco

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