Struggle Quotes

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult, at least I have found it so, than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

But a plant on the edge of a deserts is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent upon the moisture.

Man, like every other animal, has no doubt advanced to his present high condition through a struggle for existence consequent on his multiplication; and if he is to advance still higher, it is to be feared that he must remain subject to a severe struggle.

Species that struggle to adapt to survive will become extinct.

It is a matter of simple knowledge that the human likes to see the struggle between the good and the bad, the rich and the poor, the successful and the unsuccessful.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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

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

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

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

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.

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.