Quotes About Struggle

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.

If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

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

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

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