Quotes About Struggle

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

Lord help my poor soul.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Often we can't reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don't let your struggle become your identity.

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.

Life is hard. Next to what?

Freedom is not given - it is taken.

Give me blood and I will give you freedom!

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.