Quotes about Struggle
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
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
— Washington Irving
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
— William Faulkner
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
— George W. Bush
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
— Jack Kerouac
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
— Albert Camus
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
— Aristotle
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
— CS Lewis