Quotes About Struggle

Have men always been terrified of their true nature? Is all history a record of their denials of themselves?

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

Christianity doesn't answer all my questions or make me comfortable and happy. What it does do is give me a context for living.

Pain is just pain— you can live with it, fight with it." Yeah,

What separates people, Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.

si no luchamos por algo nos dejaremos vencer por todo.

It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself.

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

Thrown from my secure life, whether by chance or the Powers That Be, I was sitting on a skipping stone and it was fear, not confidence, that was increasing with the ripples of uncertainty. Mine had become a world without center.

As we pulled out of Zacatecas, the air was thick with the odors of smoldering ash, bloody dust, putrefying flesh. The rich ripe smells of triumph.

humans are reeds of straw who think. Reeds of straw who know. Reeds of straw who choose. Reeds of straw who love. Reeds of straw who willingly surpass themselves.

The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and sea and earth. You should know, Anjin-san, in this Land of Tears, death is our heritage.

You still long for freedom, my friend, and that longing is your cage. You do not even realize what you are missing, or what it is that you are longing for, but something in you calls out to be aware. You have become parched in the desert of apathy, and thirst for the Bacchic springs forever out of your reach. And while your highest aspects thirst for freedom, so too your basest roots thrust outwards and strangle the hopes—

If you have been successful long enough it will frustrate you as you can open up doors for people that say they want it, doors that you had to have opened the hard way and once opened they just stare and do not walk through it

You cannot recreate hardships and can only live through them and draw strength from the experience's life intended for your training

Now all this may sound like hokey child's play as most would say but you look at them and ask and they don't even have a penny to their name and eating spam or faking it in public on credit cards

Your best chance of success is when it hurts. - James D. Wilson

No one knows the encouragement needed to keep walking as every day I wake up smile and act as if everything is normal in which what does normal even mean

Your best chance of success is when it hurts

Diverting from a chaos path requires heart, empathy, love and three times the amount of time it first took you to land in the path of chaos

The Greatest success stories are beautifully painful

Not all Prodigals are downtrodden or live in the pig pen, quite the opposite for one third of all prodigals are very successful in life and their only hang up is the big brother not allowing them to come home

Intelligent people are cursed with many failures, letdowns and heartaches in the beginning and nothing but success the rest of days on earth.