Quotes
Quotes about Struggle
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish though eternal peace.
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.
The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.
Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.
Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understandingâthat existence is a struggle.
The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves.
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourselfâthe invisible, inevitable battles inside all of usâthat's where it's at.
He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
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.
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Unfortunately this earth is not. . . a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.
