The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.34

And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'Dover Beach', stanza 4.

   When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

-Burke, Edmund
  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.

La lutte elle-me"  me vers les sommets suffit a'   remplir un coeur d'homme. Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux. The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart.One must imagine that Sisyphus is happy.

-Camus, Albert
  Le Mythe de Sisyphe ( The Myth of Sisyphus,1955).

Say not the struggle naught availeth The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  'Say Not the Struggle Naught  Availeth'.

The most important thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking partöjust as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

-Coubertin, Pierre de, Baron
  Speech to Olympic Games officials, London, 24  Jul.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Coningsby, bk.3, ch.1.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  Of the final moments of the1908 Olympic marathon, in which the Italian runner Dorando Pietri had to be helped over the finishing line and was thus disqualified. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

A woman can look both moral and excitingöif she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

-Ferber, Edna
  In Reader's Digest, Dec.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. But weel wat I they coudna bring Waur sounds frae hell.

-Ferber, Edna
  'To the Tron-Kirk Bell', stanza1.

But the adventure, the conquest of an unknown country, thestruggle against theimpossible, all have a fascination which draws me with an irresistible force.

-Hedin, Sven Anders
  My Life as an Explorer.

We should never make a god out of form.We should struggle for form onlyas long as it serves as a means of expression for the inner sound.

-Kandinsky,Wassily
  'On the Question of Form', in Blaue Reiter Almanac.

What men or Gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza1.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

-LinYutang
  In the Ladies Home Journal.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

-Loos, Adolf
  Trotzdem1900^1930.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.

-Malthus,Thomas Robert
  An Essay on the Principle of Population.

Notforalltheuniversecontainswould I, inthestrugglefor what I conceive to be my country's cause, consent to the effusion of a single drop of human blood, except myown.

-O'Connell, Daniel known as  the Liberator
  Speech,18 Feb.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'In Front of  Your Nose'.

My draft-dodging father proved that in the struggle for survival the fittest are most likely to get killed off.

-Roth, Guenther
'Partisanship and Scholarship', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of Their Own Lives (1990).

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  JohnTanner. Man and Superman, act1.