Quotes About Struggle

Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers.

Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he had been unable to change everything. He had not even known how to begin. Lews Therin began to maunder on about taxes and money creating jobs, but he might as well have been spilling out words at random for all the sense he made.

the Creator must have been tired when it came time to make men; sometimes they hardly seemed human. "And

A drum with no head," Easar said softly, flicking his horse's reins. "A pump with no grip. A song with no voice. Still it is mine. Still it is mine.

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, nor where the doer of deeds could have done them better. "On the contrary, the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena—whose vision is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up again and again; who knows the great devotions, the great enthusiasms; who at best knows in the end the triumph of his achievement. "However

The cards are stacked, against any original mind, and perhaps properly so.

Viewed one way, then, for at least five years between 1904 and 1909, Ramanujan floundered- mostly out of school, without a degree, without contact with other mathematicians. And yet, was the cup half-empty or half-full?

He received no guidance, no stimulation, no money beyond the few rupees he made from tutoring. But for all the economic deadweight he represented, his family apparently discouraged him little- not enough, in any case, to stop him.

The problem is the inability to close the gap between what we genuinely, even passionately, want and what we are actually able to do.

In an ordinary organization, most people are doing a second job no one is paying them for...Most people are spending time and energy covering up their weaknesses, managing other people's impressions of them, showing themselves to their best advantage, playing politics, hiding their inadequacies, hiding their uncertainties, hiding their limitations.

I couldn't stop killing. It got easier each time." William Bonin

I came here to get there. Do I have any fucking clue what there is? Hell the fuck no. I'm just trying to live in a world of the dead.

Lo que hemos hecho por sobrevivir... A veces siento que no somos mejores que los muertos.

Hey, Mags. Um - how are you holding up? I don't think I'm going to love you anymore. What's the point? You are just going to die like everyone else...

Alguien te dirá que te acostumbres a esto. Ese sentimiento de estar asustado y triste. Te dirán que todo se pondrá mejor cuando aprendas a ignorarlo. No los escuches. Aférrate a él, recuérdalo... No dejes que lo olvides. Es muy fácil perder.

Simplemente no puedo ser amable. No puedo expresar mis sentimientos... Como si eso de alguna manera fuera revelarme demasiado... Exponerme. Así que siempre aparento ser tranquila, escondo mis emociones... Trato de ser fía y calmada. Tengo dificultad de abrirme con la gente.

Life pushes all of us around. Some people give up and others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people it means they need and want to learn something.

Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.

Žmon?s yra dviej? r?ši?. Vieni pasiduoda sunkumams ir eina pasroviui, kiti supyksta ir ima priešintis savo vargams.

Human's life is a struggle between ignorance and illumination. Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in

pumpkin-sized potholes

As Nagle spiraled deeper into alcoholism and resentment, Chatterton managed much of his friend's business, so that the Seeker could remain viable.

When things are easy a person doesn't really learn about himself. It's what a person does at the moment of his greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people never get that moment.

In 1966, Mao and the Communist Party launched the "Cultural Revolution," inflicting a new hell on the Chinese people.