Struggle Quotes - Page 19

• Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Night, Roman Soldiers

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• All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Effort, Life Is

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

  Willa Cather

  Interesting, Effort, Pleasure

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• We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Communication, People, Trying

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

  Rose Macaulay

  Fall, Long, Snow

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• Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Rest Of Life, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.

  Michelangelo

  Sweat, Deception, Done

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• What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Historical, Transition

  Karl Marx (2008). “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, p.139, Wildside Press LLC

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• Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Supremacy, Ends, Quarrels

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

  Mason Cooley

  Forget, Existence, Repetition

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• The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Song, Art, Difficulty

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, True Identity, People

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Aug 28, 2012

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• To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.

  Jean Rostand

  Goal, Desire

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Giving Up, Important, Want

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• Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

  Ignazio Silone

  Spiritual, Risk, Together

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• In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Race, Survival

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• Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Long, Honor

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

  Barack Obama

  Depression, War, Land

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

  Paul Klee

  Fear, Want, Bitterness

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

  Harvey Cox

  World, Comic, Ignite

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• One day, a new ideal will arise, and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved… The important thing, until that happens, is to hold one's banner high and to struggle… Without struggle there is no life.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Peace, War, Hard Work

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• The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

  Benito Mussolini

  Two Worlds, Democracy, Compromise

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• Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.

  Emily Carr

  Art, School, Reality

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• The goal is partly the enjoyment; it doesn't come later, but within the very process of the struggle.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Goal, Process, Enjoyment

  "Become What You Are". Interview with John Loudon, gratefulness.org. 1982.

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