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Quotes About Struggle

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.
~ Victor Hugo
Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah.
~ Omar Suleiman
Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.
~ Aeschylus
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
~ Honore de Balzac
I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.
~ John Green
In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
~ Joseph Joubert
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
~ Charles Dickens
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
~ Roald Dahl
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
~ Walter Annenberg
I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
~ Louis MacNeice
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.
~ Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.
~ George Sand, La Petite Fadette
Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
~ Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.
~ Junot Diaz
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
~ Asger Jorn
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.
~ Uri Avnery
People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
~ T. H. White
Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It's through the hardships you endure that you'll gain real strength.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.
~ Margaret of Valois
I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.
~ Charlie Sheen
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.
~ Mahatma Gandhi