Quotes About Struggle

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

Life is a suicide mission.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it.

Don't make fun of me! Ender said. I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.

It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

Ender knew that at this moment he might be able to walk out of the room and end the battle. The way he had escaped from the battleroom after drawing blood. But the battle would only be fought again. Again and again until the will to fight was finished. The only way to end things completely was to hurt Bonzo enough that his fear was stronger than his hate.

The devil takes his victories," the man replied, "wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him.

Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.

The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.

There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will teach you how to destroy and conquer.

Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.

Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly—I'll beat you unfairly first.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.