Quotes About Struggle

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.