Best struggle & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

“To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.”

Feels Kind Self Enough Can Do Struggle Fronts Yeah Competition Scary Humbling Elitist

Author:Ryan Adams

“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.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.”

People Ifs Years Self Government Next Struggle Determination Appeals Liberation Rejects Self Determination Solidarity Urgent Next Year Homeland Self-government New Government

Author:Velupillai Prabhakaran

“No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.”

People World Love Ideas Self Feelings Individual Struggle Dangerous Duty Affection Delusion Virtuous Pretense Self Delusion

Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

“The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.”

Self Lasts Spirit Turns Struggle Conflict Opposites Instruments Tension Conspiracy Bows Manhood Tense Modernity Psychiatrist Jesuit

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy and art). Even the most "obvious," "accurate," and "natural" style of thinking or drawing must be regulated by history and won by struggle. Solutions must therefore arise within a social context and record the complex interactions of mind and environment that define the possibility of human improvement.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.”

Giving Firsts Littles Made Self Seems Rooms Effort Known Struggle Fire Sitting Devotion Inward Declaration

Book:The Bertrams: A Novel

Source: The Bertrams: A Novel

“Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.”

Self Struggle Issues Awareness Poet Conscious Depth Planes Conscious Awareness

Book:Love and will

Source: Love and will

“[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.”

Source: Darkness and the light

“This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle and to fight for the common interest, to wield the power of brain and good right arm if need be for one's family, for the ordered community of life, for the state, for moral principles, humanity, and the common good.”

Ifs Needs Heart Self States Humanity Fighting Interest Community Common Brain Moral Principles Struggle Arms Morality Weapons Common Good Moral Principles Common Interests

Author:Joseph Alexander Leighton

“For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.”

Want Doe Self Moving Life Is Winning Attitude Struggle Achieve Surrender Hungry Conquer Hardship Great Power Moving Ahead Great Bodybuilding

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.”

People Thinking Self Sometimes Hard Problem Past Given Struggle One Thing Constant Bones Ridiculous Thanks Crush Hard Times Tragic Insecurity Upbringing

Author:Mark Oliver

“I'm for all the actor's struggle, the self-indulgent, painful journey, but I would rather have fun.”

Self Actors Fun Struggle Journey Painful Having Fun Self Indulgent

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“[In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was always a need for self-improvement, to help with the struggle to make myself a better actor.”

Needs Years Self Sometimes Helping Actors Struggle Self Improvement Constant Hunger Improvement Measuring

Author:John Goodman

“Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”

People Humans Mean Children Important Self Helping Today Struggle Rights Tomorrow Elements Increase Our Children Human Rights Self Respect Passports

Book:By any means necessary

Source: By any means necessary

“When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.”

Self Together Individual Force Struggle Lonely Destruction Working Together Self Destruction

Author:Haile Gerima

“It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.”

Mind Self Struggle Clear Ignorance Mass Blue Glorious Heavenly Occupation Preaching Sustaining Inquiring Inquiring Minds

Author:Hosea Ballou

“The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.”

“Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.”

Knows Way Looks Self Struggle Identity

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“I think what tends to embarrass me most is how much I struggle at the little things that seem to come so easily to most people, mainly involving routine and self-care. It's hard for me to do things like cook a meal, not be in a constant apocalyptically late rush everywhere I go, to put something back when I'm finished with it. I seem to be hardwired for chaos and disorganization.”

People Thinking Littles Self Hard Seems Care Struggle Late Constant Chaos Finished Cooks Meals Little Things Routine Self Care Involving Back When Disorganization

Author:Alissa Nutting

“There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.”

Heart Self Inspiration Able Beautiful Brain Morning Struggle Pieces Wonderful Cry Expression Conception Midnight Self Expression All Alone Morning After Wonderful Day

Author:Gene Stratton-Porter

“Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.”

Mean Self Struggle Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Megan Fox

“Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.”

People Self Class Struggle Middle Middle Class Absorption Self Absorption

Author:Benjamin Lewin

“By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.”

“In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.”

Self Moments Christ Answers Forget Worry Struggle Protect Elements Stress Addiction Storm Fists

Author:Ann Voskamp

“No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.”

World Way Believe Self Political Social Cases Struggle Military Islam Oneself Als Aggression Self Control Jihad Political Struggle

Author:Rashid al-Ghannushi

“'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

“No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and particularly self-discipline. The cost in comfort may be great. The sacrifice may be real. But this very demanding reality is the substance of which comes character and strength and nobility. Permissiveness never produced greatness. Integrity, loyalty, and strength are virtues whose sinews are developed through the struggles that go on within as we practice self-discipline under the demands of divinely spoken truth.”

“Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.”

Self Love Is Struggle Subjects Objects Victory Gains Slave Defeat Possession Sovereign Duality Reciprocity Contemplative Caress Separateness

Book:The Second Sex

Source: The Second Sex

“Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.”

Littles Self Struggle

Book:I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure

Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure

“What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.”

“Deepak Chopra, look at him. He's probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don't think he's struggling for any marketing or exposure. You've just got to know where your audience is.”

Thinking Knows World Looks Self Helping Audience Struggle Successful Self Help Marketing Exposure Guru

Author:KRS-One

“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.”

“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.”

Soul Self Christian Pain Struggle Perfection Perpetual Flowering

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.”

Important Self Helping Emotion Struggle Our Lives Identity Expression Music Is Pops Release Cliche Pop Music Self Expression Soundtracks

Author:Sarah Churchwell

“Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead not only to self-exaltation, but also to self-abasement. The key to battling pride is not found in struggling against thinking too highly of ourselves or in striving to think of ourselves as lowly. The key is found in simply not thinking about ourselves at all, but setting our minds on Christ and the needs of others.”

Thinking Needs Mind Self Form Found Christ Struggle Dangerous Humility Pride Keys Terrible Assuming Strive Appearance Setting Settings Dangerous Things Exaltation Needs Of Others Abasement

Author:Paul Washer

“In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.”

Heart Doe Self Form Order Understanding Black Struggle Feminism Projects Female Determination Revolutionary Collectives Self Determination Vehicle Domination Critique

Author:Bell Hooks

“Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification.”

Ideas Self Struggle Identification

Author:Matthew Carter

“Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.”

Persons Long Self Feelings Body Earth Lost Struggle Taken Scene Despair Long Time Conscious Murder Suicide Finals Persistence Realms Repeats Physical Body Ghastly Earth Life

Author:Annie Besant

“When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is self-selecting and second nature to me. Writing is harder for me. It's something I struggle with. Drawing always comes first.”

Thinking Feels Writing Firsts Self Natural Struggle Draws Harder Drawing Visuals Vocabulary Intuitive Just Do It

Author:Arthur Jones

“I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.”

Knows Way Kind Self Stuff Deals Struggle Duty Drug Heavy Plates Unhealthy

Author:Columbus Short

“Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into the mud. I don't want to be pushed into the mud. I think that is probably true. I think most people struggle with self-acceptance. But comedians get a chance to self externalize.”

People Thinking Want Self Chance Struggle Issues Self Esteem Acceptance Horrible Esteem Comedian Self Acceptance Architect Mud Embarrassment Self Esteem Issues

Author:Mike Myers

“In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.”

Want Art Self Enemy Struggle Prove Martial Arts

Author:Jet Li

“The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what each world required. And it let me use my body.”

World Self Use Body Struggle Let Me Theater Various Inner Life Inner Struggle

Author:Margo Jefferson

“Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.”

Thinking Wells Self Struggle Self Love

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like dolphins, wolves or, for that matter, primates.”

Self Matter Social Animal Struggle Survival Series Blow Serving Dolphins Self Serving Primates Struggle For Survival

Author:Frans de Waal

“To do one's best in the face of the commonplace struggles of life, and possibly in the face of failures, and to continue to endure and persevere with the ongoing difficulties of life - when those struggles and tasks contribute to the progress and happiness of others and the eternal salvation of one's self - this is true greatness.”

Self Faces Struggle Progress Greatness Eternal Tasks Difficulty Salvation Endure Ongoing Persevere Commonplace Life Struggle True Greatness

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise.”

Ifs Wells Kind Self Political Struggle Economic Military Discipline Iron Self Discipline Fists Peril

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature...All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death.”

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