Quotes About Struggle

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Yo quería hacer algo atrevido y desesperado para demostrarle cuánto me enojaba lo que el mundo le había hecho. "Pero no debe ser así. Si luchas contra el mundo, te aplastará. Si eres más astuto que el mundo, te compensará". - Horowitz

Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them; but it is the petty friction of our everyday life with one another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will or the taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible.

The life of Balance is difficult. It lies on the verge of continual temptation, its perpetual adjustments become fatiguing, its measured virtue is monotonous and uninspiring.

More difficult still, apparently, is the life of ever upward growth. Most men attempt it for a time, but growth is slow; and despair overtakes them while the goal is far away.

If an eagle be imprisoned on the back of a coin, and the coin tossed into the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.

All human conflict is ultimately theological.

Much of the problem, though, lies not with how things have changed outside of us but with our lack of a skillful means for dealing with a challenging world.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

More men are beaten than fail. It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or "pull," but just plain gristle and bone.

Will a billion dollars solve that sort of trouble? No, a billion dollars will only make the difficulty one billion dollars worse.

Why should people be so helplessly affected by agony they cannot remove?

Abide with me: fast falls the eventide;The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide:When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

There is enough and to spare. The trouble is that, in this mad struggle, we trample in the mire what has been provided in sufficiency for us all; trample it in the mire while we tear and rend each other.

Laura tried her utmost, with an industry born of despair.

Dictionary he identifies 'what ills the scholar's life assail': 'Toil, envy, want, the garret, and the jail'. The last of these was always a genuine possibility: it was common for people owing even modest debts to be incarcerated, and several writers known to Johnson had suffered this fate—the

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

These details are few and meager. It is not easy for us, in the midst of the luxuries, comforts, and necessities of a later civilization, to realize the conditions of western life previous to 1825. But the situation must be understood if one is to know the life of the boy Lincoln.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla army wins if it does not lose.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

George Bernard Shaw: "There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.