Quotes About Struggle

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.

It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

Take It From Me: Life's a Struggle but You Can Win

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.