Overcome Your Struggles: Quotes to Help You Persevere - page 48

I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You\'re challenging the notions of polite society. I\'d like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.
I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.
 Margaret Cho
A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.
 Benjamin Avila
We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.
 Matt Holliday
When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.
 Abby Sunderland
One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry
 Pope Pius XI
When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.
 George Sand
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
 Charles Krauthammer
You're not being paid by how hard you work, but by what you accomplish. If you can't hack it, pack it. Our challenge today is to look forward, to write our own history.
 William A. Connelly
There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.
There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.
But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.
 Steve Forbert
One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.
 Anjelica Huston
Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.
 Rufus Wainwright
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.
 Jane Jacobs
Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
 C. T. Vivian
The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.
Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.
 Diane Ackerman
As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.
 William Arthur Ward
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.
 Michael Parenti
I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.
 August Spies