Struggle Quotes - Page 5

• A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.

  Alexander Morozevich

  Sports, Art, Fighting

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• Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Mean, Salvation, Vacuity

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• Man has become great through struggle

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Men, Dictator

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Friends, Children, Years

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• In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether “we, the people” is a moral compact embedded in a political contract or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others.

  Bill Moyers

  Spiritual, Powerful, Reality

  "Bill Moyers: 'That Sound You Hear Is the Shredding of the Social Contract'" by Bill Moyers, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2013.

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• It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Experiments, Our Lives

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• The perpetual struggle for room and food.

  Thomas Malthus

  Cooking, Emigration, Rooms

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.59, Penguin UK

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

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Literature, Way

  "The Philosopher's Pupil".

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• I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.

  Danny Pintauro

  Heart, Trying, Sexuality

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• The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Hard Times, Men

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942)

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• If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

  Frederick Douglass

  Wisdom, Freedom, Rain

  Frederick Douglass (2014). “Frederick Douglass on Slavery and the Civil War: Selections from His Writings”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Work, Hero

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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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

  Majority, Lasts, Losing

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• Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.

  William Kunstler

  Evil, Lazy, Tasks

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• Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Strength, Inspiring

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

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Achievement, Battle

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal of some to understand, or outright refusal to learn about other human beings is based on fear. Fear is what keeps people apart.

  Piri Thomas

  Fear, Communication, Writing

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• We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

  Golda Meir

  Secret, Weapons, Places To Go

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• Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

  Henri Nouwen

  Solitude, Encounters, Transformation

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Hero, Men, Earth

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• As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Luxury, Doe, Wealth

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• During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Apr 20, 2014

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• Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

  Xunzi

  Love, Yield, People

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• The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Class, Germany

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• I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

  Nathan Parsons

  Betrayal, Character, Loss

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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