(2276 quotes found)
“Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.”
Ninon de Lenclos
“I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and everything else, without actually saying a word about it.”
Ray Charles
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass
“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
Pearl S. Buck
““To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.””
Carlos Castaneda
“The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat”
Karl Marx
“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.”
Albert Bandura
“Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story”
Iris Murdoch