Quotes About Struggle

He soon recovered sufficiently to resume work, but suffered further strokes on December 13 and 22, after which he had to submit to a regime of greatly reduced activity.

As he went out into the world, writes Iremashvili, he took with him "a grim and bitter hatred against the school administration, the bourgeoisie, and all that existed in the country and represented tsarism.

This metaphorical depiction of the Soviet situation as a great wrestling match of opposing classes was at once a manifesto of Stalin's Leninism and a clear revelation of his lifelong need to "beat" in the twofold sense of "strike" and "be victorious.

Earlier in the year, Trotsky had been shipped into exile in Turkey. Organized opposition was now at an end. The struggle for leadership was over, and Stalin was the victor. As if to mark this fact and formalize the outcome, his fiftieth birthday, on December 21, 1929, was officially celebrated with great fanfare. The party, over which the Stalin faction reigned supreme, saluted him on that occasion as Lenin's successor—the new vozhd'.

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

As I live I must die daily My old nature I must kill

actively rebel against those forces that have pushed you away from your true path.

Realize this: In your struggle for power you will stir up rivalries and create enemies. There will be people you cannot win over, who will remain your enemies no matter what.

Instead of internalizing a bad situation, externalize it and face your enemy. It is the only way out.

When you are weaker, there is nothing to be gained by fighting a useless fight. No one comes to help the weak—by doing so they would only put themselves in jeopardy. The weak are alone and must submit. Fighting gives you nothing to gain but martyrdom, and in the process a lot of people who do not believe in your cause will die.

For every famous martyr there are thousands more who have inspired neither a religion nor a rebellion, so that if martyrdom does sometimes grant a certain power, it does so unpredictably.

Los débiles siempre se benefician con las luchas entre los poderosos".

In this world, where the game is played with loaded dice, a man must have a temper of iron, with armor proof to the blows of fate, and weapons to make his way against men. Life is one long battle; we have to fight at every step; and Voltaire very rightly says that if we succeed, it is at the point of the sword, and that we die with the weapon in our hand. —Arthur Schopenhauer

Remember: there are always people out there who are more aggressive, more devious, more ruthless than you are, and it is inevitable that some of them will cross your path.

Let us call the collection of these forces that push and pull at us from deep within human nature.

those misfortunates among us who have been brought down by circumstances beyond their control deserve all the help and sympathy we can give them

La vida diaria es dura, y casi todos buscamos incesantemente huir de ella en sueños y fantasías.

Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity—precisely the time when you need strength.

Quien pretende ser bueno en todo momento, está destinado a la perdición en medio del enorme número de quienes no lo son".

Mira hasta el final, sea lo que fuere lo que estés contemplando. A menudo Dios otorga al hombre un breve instante de felicidad, para luego arruinarlo por completo.