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Quotes About Struggle

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?
~ Denzel Washington
Satan gets disturbed -and defeated -when you decide to do more that be a Sunday-morning Christian.
~ Jentezen Franklin
I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn't make yourself over between dawn and dusk.
~ John Knowles
I wake up some mornings hating me too.
~ Rahm Emanuel
Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.
~ Paul Rudnick
It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.
~ Bashar al-Assad
There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.
~ Meg Tilly
I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.
~ Donald E. Westlake
Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.
~ Cornel West
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.
~ Thom Yorke
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
~ Oscar Wilde
Our toil is sweet with thankfulness, Our burden is our boon; The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?
~ Tupac Shakur
They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive.
~ John Buford
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
~ Samuel Beckett
The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning.
~ Jim Gaffigan
Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
~ Jules Feiffer
The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
~ Charles Bukowski
A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.
~ Watchman Nee
Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.
~ George Allen
(His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to breathe.
~ Kevin Henkes
I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.
~ Elton John
When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.
~ Kristin Hunter