Quotes About Hardship

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

Calamity was ordained for man.

You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.

No man is without his load of trouble.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.

Because the path of the righteous man was never supposed to be easy,' I whispered. 'Those who are chosen by the Lord are given a hard journey. The rewards will come later.

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.