Quotes About Struggle

I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

We must take the initiative; we must be permanently on the offensive. It is the battle of class struggle. We must keep the enemy always on the defensive.

The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.

While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That's something I struggle with.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

In 1989, my father died after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease. All four of his siblings followed him into the shadow lands of that fascinating, maddening affliction.

Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.

Body image is something that girls struggle with every day, and it's something that I struggle with every day.

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

It's not so easy to be gay or even a woman in some places in the world, and in many countries, it's illegal to be gay. You can be put to death. It's a global struggle. A human rights struggle on a global scale.

My parents were electrical engineers, immigrants from China, and we were always just in a state of struggle, building our life.

Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.