Quotes About Struggle

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

Maybe my pain was my motivation.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

Well, football is a hard game; there's no denying it. It's a game that can bring out the worst in you, at times.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.