Quotes About Struggle

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

My service solidified my respect for our freedom, and the struggle to preserve it. I know the cost of obtaining freedom, keeping it and the value of it.

If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

Never expect people to understand, respect or love you, they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough.

I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy.

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.

I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Everyone forgets that what's fun about a romantic comedy is how these two people are going to fight with each other and how's that going to be funny.

A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.