Quotes About Struggle

Humility is awareness that you are an underdog in the struggle against your own weakness.

His moral task was to suffer well, to be worthy of his sufferings. He could not control how much he suffered, but he could control his inner response to his sufferings.

The first big thing suffering does is it drags you deeper into yourself.

Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with the sense that Providence had taken control of his life, that he was a small instrument in a transcendent task.

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.

The beauty in life is in the struggles along the way to character.

The inner struggle against one's own weaknesses is the central drama of life.

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

All mortals need to decide how to live their lives. Warriors believe that since we are mortals and we will die, the best way to live our lives is to fight bravely and gain undying kleos. Maybe we are wrong.

outside of my family, the biggest thing in my life. I'd had fights over him, I'd got beaten up because of him.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Our darkest hour is often the prelude to a great victory. God invades our circumstances and hides us with His cloak.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

All those train songs, all that running... Merle never ends up anywhere any better. But he does get gone.

One by one, my pals from the old days drifted away, checking on me every once in a while and, seeing that there was nothing to be done—I would not listen to anyone at the time, no matter what they said—eventually leaving me to my obsession.

Hope is oxygen to someone who is suffocating on despair.

Rats—humans too—continue to push on the bar in the cage of our existence looking for a reward past the point of reason because, every once in a while, something unthinkably delicious comes down the tube.

The best intentions frequently met their match around me.

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family ' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

People are trying to be smart—all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

Children can be too hard on their parents, until they learn themselves how hard life can be.

Is there nothing,' cried Larka bitterly, 'nothing we can see in life that is too terrible? No horror we can see that will bring peace?

It's those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.