Quotes about Struggle
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
— Thomas Jefferson
I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
— Euripides
I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
— Virginia Woolf
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
— Samuel Johnson
I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.
— Alistair Begg
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
— St. Augustine
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.
— Thomas a Kempis