Quotes About Struggle

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

My hat's in the ring. The fight is one and I'm stripped to the buff.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what's going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

My mind is like the Titanic, to many brain cells for the life boats.

You can't separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.

Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete

Monsters always make more trouble before they die.

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Tell me how I stay positive When they never see good in me

Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Initially, I felt like my duty was to just keep it positive and be positive and sometimes I crack in that. We're human. I'm imperfect at times and that was just me being imperfect at that one point.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.