Quotes about Struggle

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now... Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

While awaiting deportation proceedings, my parents remained in detention near Boston, so I could visit them. They would have liked to fight deportation, but without a lawyer and an immigration system that rarely gives judges the discretion to allow families to stay together, they never had a chance.

Losing your faith is an essential part of having a three-dimensional, vivid, vibrant faith.

I was the oldest of four children, and the atmosphere was volatile for all of us. My father and mother were in constant conflict, making divorce seem like the only possible outcome.

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

America was built on segregation. It's gonna stay segregated until everyone's equal, and that ain't gonna happen when it's a capitalistic society.

I've experienced a lot of sexism in football.

My whole faith was shattered there for a while.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.