Quotes About Struggle

If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon?

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

You become the monster you fear the worst, so the monster won't overtake you.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

Fear and fatigue block the mind. Face both, then courage and confidence flows into you.

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

You know, so often we think we have each step figured out. And then when one thing doesn't go our way, we begin to question, we being to fear what our next step will be.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.

I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.