#Struggle Quotes

“O, how full of briers is this working-day world!”

“To take arms against a sea of troubles.”

“Fight to the last gasp.”

“Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.”

“Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.”

“Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.”

“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”

“When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne”

“We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.”

“If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.”

“I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.”

“These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.”

“Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.”

“I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.”

“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.”

“...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.”

“... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.”

“We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.”

“I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.”

“We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.”

“That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.”

“Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.”

“Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.”

“For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.”

“Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.”

“For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.”

“The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.”

“Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.”

“What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.”

“Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.”

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”

“We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.”

“The strenuous life tastes better”

“It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.”

“My wretched dragon is perplexed.”

“I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me”

“If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.”

“Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.”

“When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre”

“I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.”

“The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.”

“The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.”

“And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.”

“Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.”

“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.”

“Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.”

“Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.”

“Many a good man I have seen go under.”

“I have wanted to kill myself a million times,but somehow I am still in love with life.”

“Those who live are those who fight.”