Struggle Quotes - Page 37

• A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

  J. G. Holland

  Memories, Home, Men

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• To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.

  J. G. Holland

  Track, Perfection, Humanity

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.112

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• Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

  Honorius Augustodunensis

  Song, Plato, Soul

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• A person who does not have stability of mind is an unstable dinghy. In this struggle of life, I will confront all the challenges with truth and strength, and will never waver. Cowardliness is an eveil which I should banish from my life.

  Totaram Sanadhya

  Challenges, Mind, Doe

  "My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands". Book by Totaram Sanadhya, 1991.

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• It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule - different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  Political, Different, Prejudice

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• Free, free! what a glorious ring to the word. Free! the bitter heart-struggle was over. Free! the soul could go out to heaven and to God with no chains to clog its flight or pull it down. Free! the earth wore a brighter look, and the very stars seemed to sing with joy. Yes, free! free by the laws of man and the smile of God-and Heaven bless them who made me so!

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.28, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back.

  Trent Shelton

  Betrayal, Mean, Laughing

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• A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

  Susan Minot

  Persons

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• much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

  Patience Strong

  Gardening

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  Gertrude Bell

  Death, Passion, Men

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• The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

  Monique Wittig

  Class, Two, Contradiction

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Autism, Juvenile, Diabetes

  "CBB Talks to Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe". CBB Interview, celebritybabies.people.com. May 12, 2009.

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• Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

  Maya Angelou

  Christian, Buddhist, Morning

  "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. November 21, 1973.

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• My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.

  Jim Beaver

  Daughter, Father, Cancer

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• A space program that truly goes somewhere! With his deeds, not only words, President Obama has revitalized our struggling space program.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, President, Deeds

  "President Obama’s JFK Moment" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

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• Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Self, Identity, Way

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization.

  Alissa Nutting

  Thinking, Self, People

  "A Teachable Moment". Interview with John Lee, logger.believermag.com. August 6, 2013.

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• In terms of homosexuality, not everyone is prepared for a daily struggle against nature. In some ways, people who challenge and subvert their biologically-determined body are struggling against nature. It's a mysterious combination of nature and nurture that determines a person's gender, and for whatever reason some people are driven to challenge their biological "destiny". It's a difficult struggle, and I believe it takes a lot of courage.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Believe, Destiny, People

  Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• My favorite quote is Thomas Jefferson`s "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time." Well, he was a slave-owner. But these institutions, while they weren't perfect at the time, did allow people to prosper and to continue to struggle and build toward them. That's what you need, is good institutions and I think people will eventually live up to them.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Slave Owners, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I have a lot of girlfriends who are struggling out there to find good men.

  Britt Robertson

  Girlfriend, Men, Good Man

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There's a story behind every old ballad or work song or nonsense song that I ever knew. Sometimes it's a fascinating story. A story of people struggling for freedom, struggling to get along in this old world.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, People, Stories

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?

  Jason Mraz

  Way, Gone, Slave

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• I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Believe, Perfect

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• You know when grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore? I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me.

  Blake Griffin

  Hate, People, Grandparent

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.

  Jo Coudert

  Responsibility, Winning, Our Lives

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.118, iUniverse

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