Quotes About Struggle

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

You cannot buy experience. You have to fight for it.

Actually, my experience over the past couple of years hasn't necessarily been something that would be interesting, were it committed to record.

I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience

It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

Boxing's not that straightforward," said Eldric. "You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.