Quotes About Struggle

But he, sad-eyed and ashy-cheeked, When slips the pen from grasping, Sees, as he struggles, gasping, With fame the far horizon streaked Behind Death's raven gory-beaked.

Making up his mind is a chore no less strenuous to the average Libran male than taming a wild buffalo...

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to stand up for freedom together...

If you cain't bear no crosses, you cain't wear no crown.

Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle.

One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

Is't death to fall for Freedom's right? He's dead alone who lacks her light!

God is closest to those with broken hearts.

...but people become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them...

I'm a dandelion in a harsh wind.

I'm a butterfly that's hurt its wings against a hard world to-night.

My generation is not strong. My grandfather fought in World War II. I had a panic attack during the series finale of Breaking Bad.

In this epoch of ours, many of us are watching with a distressed heart the evidence of a flight from freedom. Most people take liberty for granted, when they enjoy it, and do not realize that they have to relentlessly fight for preserving it.

Control sometimes hurts more than chaos.

Old Satan couldn't get along without plenty of help.

Since the development of bacteriology, many have been inclined to forget that, as it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. There is a constant struggle between disease germs and the bodies of animals and of human beings that they invade. There is also a tendency for an equilibrium to become established. The germs kill off the most susceptible and immunize the more resistant.

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.

Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it.

The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do it without destroying the health of the mind.

You can shout it to every star, Bare your soul up to the moon, Cast your problems nightly afar— But they always flood back by noon.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on!