Struggle Quotes

Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.

~ Louis Theroux

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

~ Marilyn Manson

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

~ Émile Zola

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

~ Deborah Raney

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

~ Iris Murdoch

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

~ Henry Moore

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

~ Angela Davis

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

~ Malcolm Turnbull

It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.'

~ Charles A. Beard

If someone is trying to skip the struggle - which is the creative job - our machines today, the technology that we have, can help the person, but it is only momentary. On the other hand, if you are creative, you have the skill, and you are hardworking, technology can only make you superior.

~ Arijit Singh

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.

~ Bernie Sanders

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.

~ Daniel Ortega

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

~ Arthur Scargill

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

~ Arthur Capper

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

~ Alan Paton

Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we're asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don't even understand what peace means.

~ Fred Hampton

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

~ Samuel Smiles

So the lover must struggle for words.

~ T. S. Eliot

That's my biggest struggle, is maintaining a personal romantic relationship. It takes a lot of effort.

~ Chelsea Handler

If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, and it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person.

~ Sarah Gadon

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

~ A. Philip Randolph

In any relationship, when you go through any big change, you struggle to find your new constellation, your new ground. It takes a while to determine what the new relationship between you is.

~ Alicia Vikander

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

~ Robert Rauschenberg

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

~ Ted Dekker

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

~ Orison Swett Marden

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

~ Pearl S. Buck

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

~ Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

~ Frederick Douglass

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

~ Carter G. Woodson

In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.

~ Steven Biko

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

~ Abraham Lincoln

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

~ William Osler

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

~ Rosa Luxemburg

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

~ Michael Shannon

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

~ Ezra Miller

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

~ Matthew Shultz

The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.

~ Eric Schneiderman

Through every struggle that I have been confronted with and have been subjected to - solitary confinement, long legal battles, and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been - I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature, and thrive as a better, more confident person.

~ Chelsea Manning