Quotes on Constant Struggle

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.