Struggle Quotes - Page 38

• I feel fortunate to have made records during an era where people actually bought music. But I have friends in struggling up-and-coming bands now that will certainly never be able to pay the rent, because music has been devalued.

  Tom Morello

  People, Records, Pay

  Interview with Robin Grearson, logger.believermag.com. August 27, 2013.

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• I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, People, Community

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.

  John Kirwan

  Lows, Ill, Mentally Ill

  John Kirwan, Margie Thomson (2011). “All Blacks Don't Cry: A Story of Hope”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on waking up in the morning, do not need to wonder who might have been arrested during the night and what further acts of blatant injustice might be committed against our people later during the day. Our antennae become highly sensitive to vibrations barely noticed by those whose everyday existence is removed from political struggle.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Morning, Night, People

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• Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage.

  Victor Cousin

  Art, Giving, True Beauty

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• Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Wish, Helping, Sometimes

  Phyllis Bottome (1930). “Tatter'd Loving”

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• The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

  Carson McCullers

  Ideas, Goes On, Labor

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause of human freedom and a united nation, stronger and richer in patriotism because of the great strife, will be remembered.

  James Longstreet

  Passion, Sleep, Accomplishment

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• A few more years shall roll,
  A few more seasons come;
  And we shall be with those that rest,
  Asleep within the tomb.
  A few more storms shall beat
  On this wild rocky shore;
  And we shall be where tempests cease,
  And surges swell no more.
  A few more struggles here,
  A few more partings o'er,
  A few more toils, a few more tears,
  And we shall weep no more.
  Then, O my Lord, prepare
  My soul for that blest day;
  Oh, wash me in Thy precious blood,
  And take my sins away.

  Horatius Bonar

  Blood, Years, Soul

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• Let America symbolize humanity's struggle to conquer nature and master technology. The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future - and of the future of America.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Technology, Government, America

  "A War Tat is Finished". Gerald R. Ford's speech at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, www.historyplace.com. April 23, 1975.

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• In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Men, White, Black

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• It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw materials, international friction would be reduced. This would merely put a contest of force in the place of what can only metaphorically be called the "struggle" of competition and would transfer to powerful and armed states, subject to no superior law, the rivalries which between individuals had to be decided without recourse to force.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Powerful, Law, Competition

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

  Alice James

  Attitude, Luxury, Perfect

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

  Bernard Gilpin

  Temptation, Virtue, Reason

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• It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Book, Opportunity

  "The Last of the Mohicans". Book by James F. Cooper, 1826.

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• One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Monkeys, Six, Activism

  Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.40, Vintage

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• History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Civilization, Age, Different

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• Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Dance, Hands, Wings

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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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• Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Art, Men, Fire

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• Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

  Anne Roiphe

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Art, Men, Opportunity

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• From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Taken, Tired

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Growing Up, Temptation, Victory

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• We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Perseverance, Hard Work

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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