Quotes About Struggle

This reminds me of the old saying about a guy who owned four farms. He lost three of them drawing to inside straights and lost the fourth one when he made it.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Every yielding to temptation is a hindrance, not a help, to moral development; but every temptation offers what, rightly employed, is an indispensable means of moral development. For all moral development is through temptation to virtue.

Every soul is a battlefield.

If the consciousness of God is possible to all healthful souls, why are so many men and women without this consciousness? There are men and women, not a few, who do not want God. They would be very glad to have God if he were always on their side; glad to have God if he would always do what they want him to do. But a supreme will ... a masterful will, a will to which they must conform, they do not want.

There can be no virtue without temptation; for virtue is victory over temptation.

It is in vain for us to devise schemes by which competition can be put out of civilized life. Competition is the condition of life.

Real human nature is made up of curious contradictions. Strangely conflicting master-passions struggle for the victory.

We think if we can only take the temptation away from men, men will be virtuous. We are mistaken. Men are made virtuous by confronting temptation.

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.

Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

it was on Rawlins's shoulders that they sobbed their hearts out when their babies were taken from them.

He sighed forlornly and lifted

Pure love was always difficult to witness. Why was that, she wondered? Because it was so rare? So beautiful? SO damned unattainable for most of the poor saps muddling through this life?

Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved -- the Great Society.