Quotes About Struggle

One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.

My hatred gives me strength.

There were worse things than death, as she'd discovered. Sometimes living took far more courage. Facing another day. Enduring. Those things took strength. Far more than dying.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)

Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger deserves applause.

The enemy will hit you in your area of strength to discourage himself.

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

Malcolm X finally became the person he was meant and raised to be. He fought against the forces of racism to return to that. Malcolm wanted to inspire other people to find their own strength.

You can fall in the area of your strength as easily as you could fall in the area of your weakness.