Quotes About Struggle

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.

It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

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

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

Victory passes back and forth between men.

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.

Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

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

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

I told God I'd be back in a second. Man it's so hard not to act reckless.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune