Quotes About Struggle

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

postcolonial" countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial

Yet after withdrawing from three wars in two generations—each begun with idealistic aspirations and widespread public support but ending in national trauma—America struggles to define the relationship between its power (still vast) and its principles.

Pokud Ã…â"¢ádu nelze dosáhnout obecnou shodou ani jej vnutit silou, pak nelze jinak než jej za cenu katastrof a nelidskostí ukout ze zkuÅ¡enosti chaosu.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

We fight it down, and we live it down, or we bear it bravely well, But the best men die of a broken heart for the things they cannot tell.

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history.

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

Every man is his own hell.

Life is a dead-end street.

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.

Life without hope is hopelessly difficult but at the end hope can so easily make fools of us all.

Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray – a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failures.' René Leriche, La philosophie de la chirurgie, 1951

La vida sin esperanzas es tremendamente difícil, pero con cuánta facilidad consigue la esperanza, en definitiva, volvernos necios a todos.

Just as it is irresistible to save a life, it is also very difficult to tell somebody that I cannot save them

My wife and I spent the next few weeks in that strange world one enters when you fear for your child's life – the outside world, the real world, becomes a ghost world, and the people in it remote and indistinct. The only reality is intense fear, a fear driven by helpless, overwhelming love.

Përpjekjet për vetëvrasje shihen shpesh, nga stafi i spitalit, me përbuzje e mospërfillje – dështim si në jetë dhe në vdekje dhe si mjete të fatkeqësisë vetjake

Pacientët nuk kanë zgjedhje tjetër, veçse të na besojnë. Dhe është detyra jonë të punojmë fort për të merituar atë besim që pacientët na japin dhe duhet të rezistojmë dhe të luftojmë fort

It was miserable work, with little reward, and I learned much about the limitations of human kindness, and in particular my own.