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Quotes about Struggle

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.
— Thomas Becket
As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Ice cream, I can't pass a gelateria without going in. Italy is a nightmare place for me to stay in shape.
— Toni Garrn
The tragic loneliness black women consistently face as we stand before judgmental others—sometimes white, but sometimes black; sometimes male, but sometimes female—demands that we have some wisdom, experience, and some passion with which to combat this abuse.
— Nikki Giovanni
Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
— Cicero
We all are vulnerable to the forces and decisions that have derailed too many.
— Clayton M. Christensen
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
— Viktor E. Frankl
One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.
— Viktor E. Frankl
If the man in the concentration camp did not struggle against this in a last effort to save his self-respect, he lost the feeling of being an individual, a being with a mind, with inner freedom and personal value. He thought of himself then as only a part of an enormous mass of people; his existence descended to the level of animal life.
— Viktor E. Frankl