Quotes about Struggle
It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
— Ernest Hemingway
For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
— George Eliot
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
— George Bernard Shaw
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
— Oscar Wilde
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
— Abraham Lincoln
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
— Aristotle
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
— Eleanor Roosevelt