Constant Struggle Quotes

• Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Success, Struggle, Inspiration

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.155, Penguin

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• If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

  Geoff Hickson

  Motivational, Struggle, Self Improvement

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• Never under estimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is an ongoing struggle and you have to commit to winning if you are to succeed.

  Bob Proctor

  Success, Struggle, Fall

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 08, 2013

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• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  "Nobody Knows My Name". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Struggle, Acceptance

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.21, Penguin

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• Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

  Kris Carr

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Jul 16, 2013

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• The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

  Sylvia Plath

  Struggle, Simple, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.301, Faber & Faber

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• Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Hos poetry strikes many parallels--the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle-- and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening reading.

  Sam Hamill

  War, Reading, Struggle

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• It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

  Christine Lavin

  Song, Believe, Struggle

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• There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Taken, Struggle

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• Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Struggle, Majority, Lasts

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• Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Struggle, Live Life, Passion

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• the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.

  Lillie Devereux Blake

  Struggle, Heart, Religion

  Lillie Devereux Blake (1883). “Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on "Woman" by the Rev. Morgan Dix ...”

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• There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, People, Evil

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• This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift.

  Kent Nerburn

  Marriage, Children, Father

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• Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many things, it's a constant struggle to keep the handicapped members of our community in the center of my life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, People, Community

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• So it's a constant struggle, it's a constant balance, it's a constant search to find the balance between being responsible, carrying on with this as a livelihood and making ends meet, but at the same time, respecting your loved ones and being able to stay in touch and be there for them, at least emotionally since you're not there physically.

  Chuck Ragan

  Struggle, Balance, Carrying On

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way of saying that if I believe in justice and I believe that justice is a constant struggle, and if I want to create justice, then I have to get comfortable with struggle.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Believe, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think in most couples or partnerships, there's a constant struggle for power and dominance.

  Alice Lowe

  Couple, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

  Eve Ensler

  Giving Up, Struggle, Thinking

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

  Thomas Adcock

  New York, Struggle, Causes

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• There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Running, Military, Struggle

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (1918). “Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan”

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• Most actors don't know what they're going to do next, so you get into this thing where you have to force yourself to have another life outside of acting. And then, as soon as you start something in this sort of normal life that you're trying to live, you get a job. So you have this constant struggle because you want to be able to commit to things and to finish things in your life, but then you also want to be able to act.

  Winona Ryder

  Jobs, Struggle, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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