Quotes About Struggle

los comunistas, luchando contra los nazis en las calles y contra el gobierno por medio de huelgas, contribuyeron a hacerle imposible gobernar.

In war what you don't dislike is not usually what the enemy does.

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

los grandes antagonismos se manifiestan en detalles pequeños.

Además, el proceso de agenciarse carbón era una dificultad y un peligro extraordinarios. La extensa organización del Almirantazgo tenía servicios de vigilancia en cada puerto, sobre cada tonelada y en todo carbonero probable. La compra del carbón y el movimiento de un carbonero podían muy bien proporcionar una pista a los perseguidores.

all the great struggles of history have been won by superior will-power wresting victory in the teeth of odds or upon the narrowest of margins.

Here we stir the embers of the past and light the beacons of the future. Old flags are raised anew; the passions of vanished generations awake; beneath the shell-torn soil of the twentieth century the bones of long dead warriors and victims are exposed, and the wail of lost causes sounds in the wind.

The fighting man shall from the sun Take warmth, and life from the growing earth; Speed with the light-foot wind to run, And with the trees to newer birth, And find when fighting shall be done, Great rest and fullness after dearth. The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings; But day shall clasp him with strong hands, And night shall fold him in soft wings.' JULIAN GRENFELL. Flanders, April, 1915.

Hard as are the tests of battle, the armies of all nations have withstood them. But here was the long gnawing strain of suffering much and talking more, of having little and doing nothing.

It was not through wrong judgment that they failed, but through want of will-power. In such times the Kingdom of Heaven can only be taken by storm.

Ten million homes awaited the return of the warriors. A hundred cities prepared to acclaim their triumphs. But all were defeated; all were stricken; everything that they had given was given in vain. The hideous injuries they inflicted and bore, the privations they endured, the grand loyalties they exemplified, all were in vain. Nothing was gained by any.

quedó libre de toda responsabilidad y dedicado a contemplar las faltas inevitables, las debilidades, las sorpresas y los desengaños que la lucha tenía reservados.

When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and these were of doubtful utility.

At one moment France too seemed about to succumb, but the Arabs were beaten back by Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne, in 732 at Poitiers. Thus, all the way from Mecca the power of Islam came almost to within striking distance of these islands.

in mortal war anger must be subordinated to defeating the main immediate enemy.

One thing is absolutely certain, namely, that victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance.

The Scots were unconquerable foes. It was not until 1305 that Wallace was captured, tried with full ceremonial in Westminster Hall, and hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn. But the Scottish war was one in which, as a chronicler said, "every winter undid every summer's work". Wallace was to pass the torch to Robert Bruce.

The Germans met them in overwhelming strength, and furious fighting began. All but five of the landing party were killed or captured.

One begins to see, for instance, that painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

We have had nothing else but wars since democracy took charge.

depended. On this point we should never have given way, but the refusal would have been bitterly resented by our struggling Ally, and would have poisoned all our relations. It was even with an actual sense of relief that some of our high commanders addressed themselves to our new and grimly simplified problem. As

Solo el sombrío crepúsculo de la lucha adversa trae la hora de las soluciones desesperadas. Lo positivo posible se rechaza cuando todo podía ganarse, mientras lo negativo peligroso se adopta cuando no queda otra posibilidad que la huida, y la energía y resolución que podían haber asegurado la victoria se malgastan en meros procesos de fuga.

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.

He is no better than an epileptic corpse.