Struggle

Famous quotes containing the word struggle:

“In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

“Parenting is a profoundly reciprocal process: we, the shapers of our children’s lives, are also being shaped. As we struggle to be parents, we are forced to encounter ourselves; and if we are willing to look at what is happening between us and our children, we may learn how we came to be who we are.”
—Augustus Y. Napier (20th century)

“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)