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Quotes About Struggle

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
~ Plato
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
~ Oleg Cassini
Life's not all beer and skittles
~ Radclyffe Hall
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!
~ Robert Burns
Life is hard but so very beautiful
~ Abraham Lincoln
He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
~ Adolf Hitler
But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
~ Albert Camus
This long disease, my life.
~ Alexander Pope
Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.
~ Art Carney
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
~ Bette Greene
That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve.
~ Billy Graham
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.
~ Garth Brooks
It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
~ George Eliot
The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.
~ Georges Bataille
Like it or not, life is a series of competitions.
~ Harvey Mackay
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
~ Hermann Hesse
If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.
~ Howard Zinn
Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?
~ J. Michael Straczynski