Quotes About Struggle

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

There's too much beauty upon this earth For lonely men to bear.

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.

Inside me there is a fat man dying to get out.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

I am not for women but against men.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

"To think the way you do," he said smiling, "you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope." "On both, perhaps."

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.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions