Quotes About Struggle

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I'd had enough of trying to ignore them.

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

I guess that makes our biggest weakness lack of strength.

We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times

It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.