Quotes About Struggle

I'm not the one with the problem its the world who seems to have a problem with me

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

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

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

But desperate people find courage.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.