Best Struggle Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.”

“I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.”

“Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.”

Looks States Used Struggle Economy Revolution Unions Islam Soviet Colonialism Soviet Union Imperialism Monopoly Slogans Khomeini

Author:Azar Nafisi

“When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.”

Struggle Teaching Revolution University Implementation Tehran

Author:Azar Nafisi

“I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.”

Felt Struggle Unconscious Closets

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.”

People Looks Country Stories Bigs Seems Class Struggle Fans Labor Mark Our Country Epic Royalty Life Struggle Upper Class

Author:Lucas Neff

“Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.”

Long Struggle Achievement Highest Titles Fallen Awards Life Struggle

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.”

Trying Ideas Struggle Arms Cat Notion Obvious Footnotes

Author:Ted Nelson

“Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.”

Knows Artist Struggle Hardest Vacation Hardest Thing Time Off

Author:Karen O

“And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.”

People Mother Loss Struggle Empathetic

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.”

People Stills Seems Religious Struggle Atheist Bad Things Weird Things Offending

Author:Patton Oswalt

“Certain struggles never end.”

Ends Certain Struggle

Author:Tatum O'Neal

“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.”

Men Children Dream Light Fighting Waiting Church Struggle Longing Profound Caught Rings Ice Pounds Bells Cream Traffic Veteran Ice Cream Junk Sirens Vendors Traffic Light Church Bells

Author:Jackson Browne

“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.”

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against...Christ.”

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Author:Denis Fahey

“I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.”

World Way Happens Father Class Struggle Seeing Rage Immigrants Tied Working Class Tied Up

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.”

Needs Artist Struggle Honest Solo

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“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.”

Ifs Trying Heart Struggle Sexuality Appropriate Appropriate Time

Author:Danny Pintauro

“If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.”

Ifs Feels May Made Country Facts Political Difficult Struggle Gone Huge Normal Dictatorship Greece Barbarism Political Life Upheaval Polarization

Author:George Papandreou

“The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.”

Needs Use Problem Would Be Struggle Dollars Be You Incentives

Author:John Poindexter

“Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.”

Easy Struggle

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.”

Country Today Party Struggle Republican Clubs Republican Party Versus Moderates Alleys Bowling Insiders Country Clubs Bowling Alleys

Author:Pete du Pont

“Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.”

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Author:Dennis A. Ross

“I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Struggle Economy Player Planets Industry Right Now Profit Currents Available Consumers Consistently Jury Electronics

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.”

Thinking Years Values Courses Difficult Quality Struggle Impossible Judging Educational

Author:Roy Romer

“I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.”

Feels Actors Struggle Blessed

Author:Ving Rhames

“I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.”

Ifs Trying Universe Found My Own Struggle Battle My Own Life

Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Play Dream Bigs Careers Struggle Player Stage Battle Tennis Worthwhile Worth It Tournaments Doubted Tennis Player

Author:Samantha Stosur

“It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.”

Men Happens Boys Struggle Awareness Raises Finished Being True Harsh Sweeping

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.”

“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Stills Sometimes Character Values Asks Moral Opinion Struggle Issues Media Responsible Don't Believe Censorship

Author:Katey Sagal

“Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.”

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Author:Ken Salazar

“I'm not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there, if we need to repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who are struggling, and I'll continue to take that message across the country.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.”

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Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?”

Ifs Men Reality Individual Struggle Imagine Activism Despite Release Behave Solidarity Innate Decency Unending

Book:The Murray Bookchin Reader

Source: The Murray Bookchin Reader

“Bringing a spiritual dimension into all that we do is essential for ending the struggle and dancing with life. Our body and our minds can take us only so far, our spirit can lead us all the way Home.”

Way Life Inspirational Mind Home Body Spiritual Spirit Struggle Positive Essentials Dancing Dimensions Way Home Spiritual Dimensions

Author:Susan Jeffers

“Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.”

Turns Forget United Struggle Forever Happened Brother Pages

Author:Muqtada al Sadr

“There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'”

War Film Struggle Directors Authority Communist War Movie

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.”

Kids Term Struggle Football Score

Author:Steve Sabol

“Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.”

Knows Values Pay Watches Worry Struggle Share Students Members My Friends Crisis Medical Barack Beloved Treatment Loan Mortgage Family Members Student Loan Beloved Family

Author:Ted Strickland

“Everything about my life seemed so perfect to people. But I struggle like everyone else.”

People Perfect Struggle

Author:Lindsey Vonn

“Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.”

“I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.”

Ifs Knows Way I Can Helping Easy Challenges Know How Struggle Routes Easy Way Easy Route

Author:Jack White

“The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.”

Mean Doe Political Process Goal Challenges Struggle Pursuit Abandoned Ira Armed Struggle

Author:James T. Walsh

“Ann Romney... looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.”

Knows Believe Mean Hard Stories America Struggle Rich Wife Corporate Romney Rich Women

Author:Juan Williams

“... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.”

Knows Struggle Knowing Learning Study Exercise Patient Preparation Timing Impatient Know It All

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not only of beauty but of the world as a whole, and ourselves within it ... The artist can then join forces with those who work for justice and those who struggle for redemptive relationships, and together encourage and sustain those who are reaching out for a genuine, redemptive spirituality.”

World Looks Art Whole Helping Together Artist Spirituality Force Justice Struggle Seeing Creation Genuine Invisible Make Sense Visible Reaching Reach Out Puzzles Glimpse

Author:N. T. Wright

“If you feel the purpose of life is struggle, Darwinian fitness, dog eat dog, then you will be eaten by a dog, or you will eat dog. You become what you focus on.”

Ifs Inspirational Feels Life Is Purpose Struggle Focus Dog Buddhism Purpose Of Life Life Is A Struggle

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.”

Emotion Struggle Easier Lifestyle Experiments Popularity

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

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