Quotes about Struggle
Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.Shak.As you like it. Concerning deliverance itself from all adversity
— Samuel Johnson
How small of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or kings can cuse or cure!
— Samuel Johnson
This iron world (the same he weeping says)Brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state:For misery doth bravest minds abate.Spens.Hubberd's Tale.
— Samuel Johnson
It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;
— Samuel Johnson
Sainthood does not mean sinlessness.
— Scott Hahn
In his classic work, The Spiritual Combat, Dom Lorenzo Scupoli wrote: "This war is unavoidable, and you must either fight or die. The obstinacy of your enemies is so fierce that peace and arbitration with them is utterly impossible.
— Scott Hahn
Sometimes suffering is what's best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.
— Scott Hahn
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country.
— John Adams
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man…. Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocrisies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.
— John Adams
A castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
— John Bunyan
Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation!
— John Bunyan
The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.
— John Bunyan