Quotes about Struggle
Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.
— St. Augustine
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
— George Bernard Shaw
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
— Charles Dickens
The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it, but do not dare confess it to themselves.
— Anonymous
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
— Thomas Paine
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
— Abraham Lincoln
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
— St. John Chrysostom
Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.
— Anonymous
from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?
— JM Coetzee
In my own terms, I am being punished for what happened... I am sunk into a state of disgrace from which it will not be easy to lift myself. It is not a punishment I have refused. I do not murmur against it. On the contrary, I am living it out from day to day, trying to accept disgrace as my state of being. Is it enough for God, do you think, that I live in disgrace without term?
— JM Coetzee