Quotes about Struggle

They all agreed that under communism they had been just as poor, but at least there was food and security, whereas independence had brought them only ruin and abandonment.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.