Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.
Paul AusterBy denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo GalileiI decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey HepburnWhatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus AureliusYou are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.
Wayne DyerFighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
Maya AngelouI had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. TrumanI feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.
Russell M. NelsonThe struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Albert CamusThe unnatural, that too is natural.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOurs is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Mahatma GandhiThere are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James BaldwinI will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
Nelson MandelaThe Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.
Jurgen KloppHuman progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.
DJ KhaledChange 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.My life is a struggle.
VoltaireIt is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert HooverIt’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.
Kevin GatesMan is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
Mahatma GandhiI was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
Narendra ModiDrink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.
George BestIt’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.
LeBron JamesThe Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
Golda MeirIf you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William ShakespeareThe struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
Blaise PascalSome men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore RooseveltMy literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.
Paulo CoelhoI’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
Frank OceanIf life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
Wayne DyerI did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I’ve had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.
Lando NorrisMan never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.
PlatoIt was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry KissingerTo hold a pen is to be at war.
VoltaireIt is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Ludwig van BeethovenI’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.
Angelina JolieMen do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Fidel CastroWhat makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel JohnsonIt I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
Richard M. NixonTalent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
J. K. RowlingIt is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William ShakespeareIntimates are predestined.
Henry AdamsNo untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThose who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.
Herbert HooverI bear a charmed life.
William ShakespeareThe paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhat prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
Fidel CastroGee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
Babe RuthThe most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert EinsteinI can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.
Paulo CoelhoThough men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
Robert GreeneWe all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
Franz KafkaGod wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.
Joyce MeyerA God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
Alexander PopeA man’s character is his fate.
HeraclitusAll men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Maya AngelouThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Charles Bukowski