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Quotations about struggle

So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

 - Malala Yousafzai

Tags:   books  illiteracy  poverty  reading  struggle  terrorism  

Elisabeth Kübler-RossThe most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.  Beautiful people do not just happen.

 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Tags:   beauty  compassion  defeat  struggle  suffering  

Bertrand RussellThe life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

 - Bertrand Russell

Tags:   life  pain  struggle  

Richard FeynmanIt doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

 - Richard Feynman

Tags:   drama  God  struggle  universe  

Winston ChurchillI would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."

 - Winston Churchill

Tags:   government  struggle  

Edmund BurkeWhen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

 - Edmund Burke

Tags:   association  bad  good  struggle  

Henry FordLife is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

 - Henry Ford

Tags:   character  experiences  struggle  

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

 - Phillips Brooks

Tags:   character  struggle  temptation  

Martin Luther KingIn the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

 - Martin Luther King

Tags:   dignity  freedom  hatred  struggle  

Aldous HuxleyActual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

 - Aldous Huxley

Tags:   happiness  stability  struggle