Quotes About Struggle

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

What we fear we often rage against.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration