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Quotes about Struggle

Nothing happens without effort. You have to have faith. And for that, you have to break down the barriers of prejudice, which requires courage. To have courage, you must conquer your fears. And so on and so forth. Let's make peace with our days. We can't forget that life is on our side. It also wants to get better. Let's help it out!
— Paulo Coelho
When god wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.
— Paulo Coelho
You may be mentally exhausted, convinced that your nonexistent problems—problems you know are nonexistent—are draining you of all your energy.
— Paulo Coelho
It's just a storm in a tea cup,' someone says The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.
— Paulo Coelho
We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow
— Paulo Coelho
I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.
— Paulo Coelho
People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.
— GK Chesterton
Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.
— Maya Angelou
A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
— Thomas a Kempis
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
— George Bernard Shaw