Quotes about Struggle
My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.
— Drew Barrymore
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
— Carl Jung
Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.
— DH Lawrence
I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.
— DL Moody
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
— Charles Spurgeon
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction
— John Owen
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
— John Owen
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
— DH Lawrence
What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
— William Booth