Quotes About Struggle

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.

Man is the being who has built controllers for every stubborn element, but he has not been able to build one for his Ego.

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!' Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!' Bang! Bang! Bang!

I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

Hope is a working-man's dream.