“Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.”
– Andrea Dworkin
“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.”
– Coretta Scott King
“Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”
– A. Philip Randolph
“Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I’m conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.”
– Tom Vilsack
“But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.”
– Barry Bonds
“So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it’s uniform color versus skin color. We have – we’ve overcome that level of racial fear.”
– Jesse Jackson
“Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.”
– Christian Nestell Bovee
“To overcome a fear, here’s all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.”
– Peter McWilliams
“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”
– Dan Millman
“Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.”
– John Calvin
“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”
– W. Clement Stone
“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”
– Richard Bach
“Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.”
– Michael N. Castle
“I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn’t know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.”
– Ethan Hawke
“As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington.”
– Doc Hastings
“My films seem to be about men’s struggle with failure.”
– Tom Hooper
“The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.”
– David Sarnoff
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
– George Eliot
“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they’ll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.”
– Robert Rodriguez
“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.”
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.”
– William Bartram
“State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.”
– Arne Duncan
“I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle I’ve been fighting so hard to have an education. It’s been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros’ pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.”
– Emma Watson
“I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.”
– Michelle Obama
“Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Our theme for this year’s festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.”
– Lucille Roybal-Allard
“Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.”
– Kristi Yamaguchi
“If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.”
– Gary Numan