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Quotes About Struggle

It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere.
~ Michael Nesmith
Even victors are by victories undone.
~ John Dryden
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
~ Yasser Arafat
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
~ Blaise Pascal
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
~ Pierre de Coubertin
We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
~ Ralph Peters
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
~ Al Gore
Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
~ Ovid
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
I have lots of friends who are musicians and it is such a huge victory to survive in music, period - but if you get sick or injured and don't have the kind of coverage we get in Canada, you are doomed.
~ Finn Wolfhard
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
~ George Savile
In each scene, the writer sets up a situation, which brings a conflict as well as either a small victory or a loss at the close of that particular scene.
~ Darin Strauss
The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory.
~ David Sarnoff
The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.
~ Jonathan Kozol
There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.
~ Buenaventura Durruti
Boxing, for me, is all about drama and victory, and there is plenty more to come.
~ Oleksandr Usyk
Find me anybody in comics who has a longer history of yanking defeat from the jaws of victory than Bruce Banner.
~ Mark Waid
Fight for victory until the very last minute.
~ Marine Le Pen
Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express - dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in 'Victory Boogie Woogie.'
~ Piet Mondrian
In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.
~ Theodore Zeldin
I don't think I'm capable of giving a character every possible victory, no matter how much I love them, without feeling as if their ending isn't genuine to their actual trials.
~ Adam Silvera