Quotes about Struggle
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
— Booker T. Washington
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
— Herman Melville
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.
— LeBron James
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.
— Tullian Tchividjian
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
— George Bernard Shaw
Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.
— Winston Churchill
There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.
— CS Lewis
Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls.
— George Muller
I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.
— Moby
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
— Corrie Ten Boom
The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.
— DL Moody