Quotes About Struggle

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man's duty and should be his joy.

The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.