Quotes About Struggle

Men will not always die quietly.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

Heaven help the man who fights his fear.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

I never met a man I didn't want to fight.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.