Constant Struggle Quotes:

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Strength, Strength In Adversity

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

topic: Success, Struggle, Remember, Striving To Be The Best, Strive For Success

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Struggle, Goal, Choices, Constant Struggle, Purposefulness

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

- Geoff Hickson

topic: Struggle, Improvement, Forget You, Constant Struggle, Always Room For Improvement

Never under estimate the Power of the Mind. Persist in creating new thoughts to prevent falling back into negative patterns. It is an ongoing struggle and you have to commit to winning if you are to succeed.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Success, Struggle, Fall, Power Of The Mind, Think Positive

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Love, Romantic, Broken Heart, Love Grows, War Love

Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Love, Struggle, Acceptance, Mr Perfect, Constant Struggle

Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

- Kris Carr

source: FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Jul 16, 2013

topic: Struggle, Bigger, Stability, Backup Plan, Constant Struggle

The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.301, Faber & Faber

topic: Struggle, Simple, Thinking, Constant Struggle, Somber

Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Hos poetry strikes many parallels--the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle-- and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening reading.

- Sam Hamill

topic: War, Struggle, Reading, Constant Struggle

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

- Christine Lavin

topic: Song, Believe, Struggle, Constant Struggle, Business Person

There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Educational, Struggle, Taken, Passing A Test, Educational System

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Struggle, Majority, Lasts, Constant Struggle

Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

topic: Struggle, Live Life, Passion, Constant Struggle

the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.

- Lillie Devereux Blake

source: Lillie Devereux Blake (1883). “Woman's Place To-day: Four Lectures, in Reply to the Lenten Lectures on "Woman" by the Rev. Morgan Dix ...”

topic: Struggle, Heart, Religion, Constant Struggle

There is a constant struggle between good an evil in the world. It is up to good people to choose the right side

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Struggle, People, Evil, Constant Struggle

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.

- Kent Nerburn

topic: Marriage, Children, Father, Perfect Father, Constant Struggle

Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many things, it's a constant struggle to keep the handicapped members of our community in the center of my life.

- Henri Nouwen

source: Source: www.liguorian.org

topic: Struggle, People, Community, Our Community, Constant Struggle

So it's a constant struggle, it's a constant balance, it's a constant search to find the balance between being responsible, carrying on with this as a livelihood and making ends meet, but at the same time, respecting your loved ones and being able to stay in touch and be there for them, at least emotionally since you're not there physically.

- Chuck Ragan

source: Source: theindiespiritualist.com

topic: Struggle, Balance, Carrying On, Constant Struggle

Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way of saying that if I believe in justice and I believe that justice is a constant struggle, and if I want to create justice, then I have to get comfortable with struggle.

- Bryan Stevenson

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Believe, Struggle, Thinking, Constant Struggle

I think in most couples or partnerships, there's a constant struggle for power and dominance.

- Alice Lowe

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Couple, Struggle, Thinking, Constant Struggle

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me.

- Eve Ensler

source: "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

topic: Giving Up, Struggle, Thinking, Congo, Constant Struggle

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

- Thomas Adcock

topic: New York, Struggle, Causes, Constant Struggle

There has been a constant struggle on the part of the military element to keep the end- fighting, or readiness to fight-superior to mere administrative considerations. The military man, having to do the fighting, considers that the chief necessity; the administrator equally naturally tends to think the smooth running of the machine the most admirable quality.

- Alfred Thayer Mahan

source: Alfred Thayer Mahan (1918). “Mahan on Naval Warfare: Selections from the Writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan”

topic: Running, Military, Struggle, Military Man, Constant Struggle

Most actors don't know what they're going to do next, so you get into this thing where you have to force yourself to have another life outside of acting. And then, as soon as you start something in this sort of normal life that you're trying to live, you get a job. So you have this constant struggle because you want to be able to commit to things and to finish things in your life, but then you also want to be able to act.

- Winona Ryder

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Jobs, Struggle, Trying, Constant Struggle

I lived in great poverty as a child and young woman, and I used to think of money and how to make money as a means to get away from the constant struggle to survive - as freedom. Now I know it isn't freedom. It's not a solution, but a new problem. It comes with its own challenges and tremendous obligations.

- Leslie Parrish

topic: Children, Struggle, Mean, Constant Struggle

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.publicanthropology.org

topic: Struggle, Long, Madison, Constant Struggle

One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

- William Friedkin

topic: Believe, Struggle, Hero, Constant Struggle

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

- Henry Hopper

topic: Integrity, Struggle, Creative, Constant Struggle

Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is not the in thing, it is harder to break someone like me. And I'm a woman too, it's ridiculous.

- Syleena Johnson

topic: Struggle, Artist, Everyday, Constant Struggle

Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.

- Joshua Ferris

topic: Struggle, Character, Emotional, Metaphoric, Constant Struggle

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.

- Willie Robertson

topic: Struggle, Kids, Constant, Constant Struggle

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

- Eric Burdon

topic: Struggle, Winning, Evil, Struggle Between Good And Evil, Constant Struggle

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

- George Orwell

source: Tribune 22 Mar. 1946, "In Front of your Nose"

topic: Courage, Truth, Struggle, Constant Struggle, Seeing The Truth

My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.

- Anchee Min

source: Anchee Min (2004). “Empress Orchid”, Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

topic: Memories, Loneliness, Struggle, Sleepless Nights, Constant Struggle

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

- Sherman Alexie

source: Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.127, Random House

topic: Struggle, Community, Life Is, Constant Struggle

The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

- Booker T. Washington

topic: Struggle, Race, Progress, Social Equality, Constant Struggle

The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth.

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Struggle, Mind, Earth, Constant Struggle, Bulldozers

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

- Hamza Yusuf

topic: Wise, Struggle, Intelligent, Constant Struggle

That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization

- Thomas Huxley

topic: Art, Lying, Struggle, Constant Struggle

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Success, Struggle, Achievement, Constant Struggle

People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

- John C. Maxwell

source: John C. Maxwell (2011). “Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.264, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Lying, Struggle, Heart, Constant Struggle, Repeated Failure

Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese.

- Pol Pot

source: "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

topic: Regret, Struggle, Hands, Constant Struggle, Vietnamese

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

- Jascha Heifetz

topic: Struggle, Criticism, Doe, Constant Struggle

Imagine driving a car that isn't working well. When you step on the gas the car sometimes lurches forward and sometimes doesn't respond. When you blow the horn it sounds blaring. The brakes sometimes slow the car, but not always. The blinkers work occasionally, the steering is erratic, and the speedometer is inaccurate. You are engaged in a constant struggle to keep the car on the road, and it is difficult to concentrate on anything else.

- Stanley Greenspan

topic: Struggle, Blow, Car, Blinkers, Constant Struggle

I had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant struggle— you look up at the moon and wonder if that person is looking at it too. I was trying to write love songs that weren’t sappy Ben Affleck movie songs, but kind of a … man’s love songs

- Caleb Followill

topic: Long Distance Relationship, Song, Struggle, Constant Struggle

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

- Don Henley

topic: Struggle, Creative, Balance, Constant Struggle

The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

- John C. Maxwell

source: John C. Maxwell (2011). “Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.264, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Struggle, Achievement, Levels, Constant Struggle, Repeated Failure

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

- Olusegun Obasanjo

source: Olusegun Obasanjo, Ad' Obe Obe (2004). “A new dawn: a collection of speeches of President Olusegun Obasanjo”, Spectrum Books Ltd

topic: Struggle, Dedication, Law, Constant Struggle

Theres a constant struggle going on about how much will be illegal and how much you will be free to take. Can we open the pharmacies? Can we put Valium and Percodan and those sorts of things out on the shelves? I wouldn't take it. I don't know.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Struggle, Pharmacy, Valium, Constant Struggle