Quotes About Struggle

Despite everything, they tend to view economic poverty as a barrier and a challenge, not a state of being.

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

We will speak of what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.

if they watched the soldiers and opposed them everywhere, the whites could do nothing.

Out here we go hungry sometimes. There we would beg, humiliate ourselves, get robbed, and then starve. Now

The need to break her, to make her move to the touch of his harness, pumped through him like hot blood and bile. No

They are pitiful, the wasicu. They don't know enough to make peace with their own dreams. So the dreams torment them." Curly

He cried for a vision and the answer was his blindness. He

what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

The book from which you take your teaching, Dr. Halse, says that man shall not live by bread alone. These days you're asking men to live without even bread.

Bullets an stuff be flying all over. It is something I simply cannot understand - why in hell is we doing all this, anyway? Playing football is one thing. But this, I do not know why. Goddamn.

At dawn, they call in a napalm airplane, but it drop the shit damn near right on top of us. Our own fellers be all signed and burnt up - come running out into the open, eyes big as biscuits, everybody cussing and sweating and scared, woods set on fire, damn near put the rain out!

When you feel there is an unfair burden on your shoulders, that's just the way it is sometimes.

I shrug my shoulders an nod my head, but somethin down in me sinkin fast. I am jus a po ole idiot, an now I have got the whole human race to look after.

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby.

The fact that I were too dumb to play college football did not seem to impress the United States Army none.

Well, maybe it works for you, Forrest. I thought it was working for me too - but look at me. Just look at me," he say. "What good am I? I'm a goddamn legless freak. A bum. A drunkard. A thirty-five-year-old vagrant." "It could be worse," I says.