Quotes about Struggle
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
— Malcolm X
One does not become strong lifting feathers.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The heart carries heavy loads when it is being trained to carry weighty blessings.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in deep waters that God teaches us to swim.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career
— Conan O'Brien
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.
— Rose of Lima
And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.
— Paulo Coelho
The worst thing is that the enslaved secretly dream of enslaving their enslavers. The persecuted yearn to be persecutors. The slaves dream of being masters. As in the book of Esther.
— Amos Oz
I wanted to go free, to be liberated once and for all from these two enemies, the body and the soul. I wanted to be a cloud. To be a stone on the surface of the moon.
— Amos Oz
This war is being fought between fanatics convinced that their ends sanctify all means, and everyone else - all those who hold that life is an end and not a means. It is a struggle between people who believe that justice, whatever that term may mean to them, is more important than life, and those who maintain that life takes precedence over other values.
— Amos Oz
The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
— Anais Nin