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Quotes About Struggle

God gives you the sight, the right, and the might to do great things, but you have to develop the fight!
~ Tim Storey
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
~ Orison Swett Marden
There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.
~ Duke of Wellington
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.
~ Os Guinness
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
~ Mencius
Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.
~ Nicky Gumbel
There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
~ Ben Affleck
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
~ Heinrich Heine
Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.
~ Philip Guston
Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.
~ Bruce Barton
We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.
~ Ahad Ha'am
Great character is forged through hardships.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
It's a beauty one isn't born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.
~ Leslie Feinberg
With great victory comes great sacrifice.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.
~ Marie Osmond
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
~ Andre Gide
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
~ Barry Hannah
Parkinson's is my toughest fight. No, it doesn't hurt. It's hard to explain. I'm being tested to see if I'll keep praying, to see if I'll keep my faith. All great people are tested by God.
~ Muhammad Ali