Quotes About Struggle

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

O God! that bread should be so dear,And flesh and blood so cheap!

With fingers weary and worn,With eyelids heavy and red,A woman sat in unwomanly ragsPlying her needle and thread—Stitch! stitch! stitch!In poverty, hunger, and dirt.

She sang the Song of the Shirt.

Have no expectations except to be fiercely tempted to your last breath.

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

Be tough … life is. In other words, there is no promise of a rose garden.

The loss of the battle of Waterloo was the salvation of France.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it.

[On slavery:] We have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

We all have to expect to lose something in times like these.

Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.

How important is it for us to maintain protected communal homelands? Are our traditions and languages worth the cost of carrying on the fight? Certainly the easier and more expedient option is simply to step away from who we are and who we wish to be, sell what we have for cash and sink into the stewpot of North America.

I think that many non-Natives find it hard to understand why Native people are willing to fight so hard to protect their land. In the case of Gwaii Haanas, all you have to do is stand at the ocean's edge with the cedars at your back and the sky on your shoulders, and you will know.

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

If you had more friends, maybe you wouldn't spend so much time with your demons.

The fact is, the primary way that Ottawa and Washington deal with Native people is to ignore us. They know that the court system favors the powerful and the wealthy and the influential, and that, if we buy into the notion of an impartial justice system, tribes and bands can be forced through a long, convoluted, and expensive process designed to wear us down and bankrupt our economies. Be good. Play by our rules. Don't cause a disturbance.

I'd rather face a thousand fights, Ferdia, than this fight with you.