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Quotes About Struggle

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.
~ C. S. Lewis
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
~ Jim Morrison
I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.
~ Frida Kahlo
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
~ Charles Darwin
Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.
~ Bob Riley
The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.
~ Nicky Gumbel
My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.
~ GG Allin
Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.
~ Jay-Z
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
~ Miriam Makeba
To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.
~ Johannes Brahms
The only book that is worth writing is the one we don't have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed
~ Helene Cixous
Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
~ August Wilson
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.
~ John Foxe
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
~ Milan Kundera
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
~ Helen Keller
I urge you with all the strength of my soul to approach the Eucharistic Table as often as possible. Feed on this Bread of the Angels from which you will draw the strength to fight inner struggles.
~ Pier Giorgio Frassati
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.
~ Royal Robbins
The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.
~ Ratan Tata
There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.
~ Diego Maradona
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.
~ Susan Polis Schutz
The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength
~ Paulo Coelho
The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul.
~ Caroline Myss