Struggle Quotes - Page 29

• By freely choosing to believe God's promises, a person's faith may be more strongly embraced and, therefore, less likely to falter in times of struggle, sadness, or other such difficulties.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Faith, Christian

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.148, WaterBrook

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• The nobility which exists within any cause is to be found not in any achievement, but instead within the struggle.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Achievement, Causes

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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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• In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

  Tacitus

  Power, Politics, Middle

  "Annales". Book by Tacitus, II. 74,

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• The musician lifestyle is not easy for most people to understand. This is something I'm struggling with. When you're on tour, people think you're just having the time of your life and it's really romantic.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Thinking, People, Musician

  "Without Her Happy Hookers". Interview With Shilpa Ray, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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• All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Effort, Life Is

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

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• We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Communication, People, Trying

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

  Max Planck

  Hard Work, Health, Science

  Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

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• What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Historical, Transition

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.139, Wildside Press LLC

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• Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Supremacy, Ends, Quarrels

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Song, Art, Difficulty

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, True Identity, People

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Aug 28, 2012

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• Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

  Ignazio Silone

  Spiritual, Risk, Together

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• The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Wall, Pain

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Long, Honor

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

  Barack Obama

  Depression, War, Land

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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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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• One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved… The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle… Without struggle there is no life.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Peace, War, Hard Work

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• Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.

  Emily Carr

  Art, School, Reality

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• The goal is partly the enjoyment; it doesn't come later, but within the very process of the struggle.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Goal, Process, Enjoyment

  "Become What You Are". Interview with John Loudon, gratefulness.org. 1982.

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• There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Rights, Issues, States

  Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation, delivered 15 March 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.

  Arthur Middleton

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Frustration

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• It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Light, Darkness

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• If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Determination, Government, Self

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• Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

  Randy Pausch

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Thinking

  "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

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