Quotes About Struggle

When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Great faith is the product of great fights.

I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

To fly we have to have resistance.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.