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Quotes About Struggle

Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.
~ Tonya Harding
Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.
~ Tupac Shakur
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
~ W. C. Fields
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
~ Albrecht Durer
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
~ John Stuart Mill
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
~ E. M. Forster
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
~ Josh Billings
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
~ John Lennon
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
~ T.E. Lawrence
Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.
~ Daniel Handler
One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
~ Homer
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
~ Abraham Verghese
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
~ Adam Haslett
Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.
~ Alberto Villoldo
When a person finds life hard, he needs motivation and inspiration; but if he finds life's journey easy, then he needs meditation and introspection to know the true quality of his life.
~ Anuj
If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
~ Arnold Bennett
Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.
~ Avery Johnson
Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
~ Ben Jonson
Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.
~ Bernie Siegel
Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.
~ Beth Moore