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Quotes About Struggle

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.
~ Cornel West
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
~ Francois Mauriac
But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.
~ R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
….it was a brave man's fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?
~ Unknown
The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.
~ Susan Mitchell
For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.
~ Sandra Cisneros
The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont
~ George R. R. Martin
All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)
~ Sheldon B. Kopp
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
~ Ben Jonson
It is easier to die bravely than to live so.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.
~ Robert Wyatt
Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.
~ John Donne
He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
~ John Ciardi
Sometimes, it takes more courage to be weak.
~ Unknown
The only cowards are sinners fighting the fight is all.
~ John G. Neihardt
To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.
~ Comtesse Diane
Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.
~ Epictetus
rouble creates a capacity to handle it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
~ Chely Wright
Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
~ Jim Harrison