Quotes About Struggle

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

He who limps is still walking.

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.