Struggle Quotes

Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current-how can he help others across?

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave... if I could save it by freeing all the slaves... I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Of course I would have preferred success; but failing in that, I have no regrets for having rejected all advice to the contrary, and resolutely made the struggle.

It is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest inthe universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed,no wonder that so many fall. Character has to beestablished through a thousand stumbles.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.

I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.