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Quotes About Struggle

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
~ James Thurber
I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.
~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.
~ Thomas Bernhard, Concrete
Tender Ember...Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.
~ Joe Hill, NOS4A2
Some battles take more than one ninja to win.
~ Anna M. Aquino
Ninja Mom's can't be all their called to be, if their so stressed out about how their going to pay their Mastercard bill
~ Anna M. Aquino
Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.
~ John Climacus
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To lose patience is to lose the battle.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.
~ Saadi
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
~ Samuel Beckett
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.
~ Roger McDonald
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.
~ Nelson Mandela
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.
~ Rumi
Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.
~ Richelle Mead
I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!
~ George MacDonald
A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
~ William Shakespeare
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
~ William Shakespeare
If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.
~ L. E. Maxwell
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
~ Saint Augustine