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Quotes About Struggle

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.
~ James A. Baldwin
On the battlefield, (the U.S. war in Iraq) cannot be considered a success. It's a struggle. We're doing what we can to support them with equipment, assistance, training, and sharing any intelligence.
~ Robert S. Beecroft
Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.
~ Jeff MacNelly
Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.
~ Matthew McConaughey
Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
~ Richard Russo
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Jealousy - the Auschwitz of emotions.
~ Christopher Titus
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.
~ Joe Walsh
As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.
~ Nicholas D'Agosto
When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.
~ Squeak Carnwath
The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.
~ Eliza Haywood
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
~ Willard Gaylin
Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.
~ Lou Reed
The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
~ Erica Jong
The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.
~ Gordon Ramsay
As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.
~ Frederick Lenz
My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
~ Christina Aguilera
See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.
~ Paulo Coelho, Adultery
My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.
~ Voltaire, Candide
Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.
~ Anthony Liccione
Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.
~ Milan Kundera, Farewell Waltz
Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me
~ Earl Lovelace, Salt
Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
~ Rick Warren