Quotes About Struggle

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.