Quotes about Struggle
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
— John Owen
For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
— DH Lawrence
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace.
— Miguel
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
— Edmund Burke
...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.
— Ted Dekker
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
— CS Lewis
Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
— Samuel Johnson
I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.
— Thomas Jefferson
The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.
— Thomas Merton