Quotes About Struggle

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Terrorism emanates from weakness, not strength. It is the sign of despair.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.

It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.

We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.

Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it.

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.