#struggle

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

— Orison Swett Marden

#battle #bring #ceaseless #constant #great

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#born #free #interesting #learn #limits

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#accomplish #against #courage #encountered #maintained

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. ↗

— Herman Melville

#eternity #her #hope #loose #perishable

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#particular #sort #struggle #virtuous #way

As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#career #child #children #deal #dealt

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars. ↗

— Nick Nolte

#bit #costs #dollars #everything #film

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ↗

— George Orwell

#constantly #good #good prose #like #nothing

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. ↗

— David Mamet

#civilisation #did #discover #discovery #drama

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women. ↗

— Jose Marti

#lack #nations #only #struggles #support