Quotes About Struggle

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?

We honor founders of these starving cities, Whose honor is the image of our sorrow.

We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

Without hope we are lost.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.