Quotes about Struggle
The pay in the minor leagues, I think it's terrible, it's disgusting, it's exploitative.
— Sean Doolittle
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
— Thomas Jefferson
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
— Thomas Jefferson
We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.
— Thomas Jefferson
If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
— Thomas Jefferson
In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.
— Thomas Jefferson
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.
— Thomas Merton
Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.
— Thomas Merton
Laziness and cowardice are two of the greatest enemies of the spiritual life.
— Thomas Merton
Nu putem fi în relaÈ›ii de pace cu alÃ…£ii pentru c? nu suntem în relaÃ…£ii de pace cu noi înÅŸine, ÅŸi nu putem fi în relaÃ…£ii de pace cu noi înÅŸine pentru c? nu avem pace cu Dumnezeu.
— Thomas Merton
This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly.
— Thomas Merton