79 Quotes Tagged: struggle

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

Be happy — if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.

Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.

Infinite are the mortifications of the bare attempt to emerge from obscurity; numberless the failures; and greater and more galling still the vicissitudes and tormenting accompaniments of success.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art.

Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs.