Quotes About Struggle

Fui attratto da Londra, quel grande pozzo nero dal quale tutti i perdigiorno e gli sfaccendati dell'Impero vengono irresistibilmente inghiottiti.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

The toughest role is real life.

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. (Harry Braxton)

You can't just physically beat a man and expect him not to retaliate. Insults, slaps, threats go just so far. You've got to go for the jugular. You've got to finish the job in a clean sweep. What do the French call it? Coup de grace, as believe. I did learn a few things from living with Charlie.

I didn't want to be all she had. I didn't even want to be her daughter. My blood, poisoned with our family sins, turned hot, scorched my veins. Breathing was getting difficult.

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

He looked resigned, as though he knew that wretched door--to where? Home? Heaven? Peace?--would never open, and at the same time he seemed resolved, ready to do his bit even though he couldn't possibly know what sacrifices that would require. Had he been kept here, too--in a place he didn't belong, serving in a war in which he hadn't enlisted, to rescue sparrows and soldiers and shopgirls and Shakespeare? To tip the balance?

Nothing can save you, not youth or beauty or wealth, not intelligence or power or courage. You are all alone, in the middle of the ocean, with the lights going out.

It cannot rain but it pours." —JONATHAN SWIFT Oh

her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with a maelstrom of noise all around them, making it impossible to think. No

Perhaps that's what's wrong with our time, Mr. Dunworthy, it was founded by Maisry and the bishop's envoy and Sir Bloet. And all the people who stayed and tried to help, like Roche, caught the plague and died.

The harder it has been for a son of earth to win freedom, The more mightily does he stir his fellow man.

Nothing worth while comes easy. Hard work just makes you appreciate it more.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Where men can't live gods fare no better.

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.