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Quotes About Struggle

So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything.
~ John Muir
To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.
~ John Owen
Man himself has become our greatest hazard and our only hope. So that today, St. John the apostle may well be paraphrased: In the end is the Word, and the Word is Man - and the Word is with Men.
~ John Steinbeck
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
~ John Updike
I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.
~ Joseph Bruce
Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.
~ Joseph C. Aldrich
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.
~ Joseph Conrad
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
~ Josh Billings
The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.
~ Julien Green
Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.
~ Khalil Gibran
How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.
~ Ki Longfellow
I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
~ Leonard Cohen
When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!
~ Leonid Andreyev
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
~ Sargent Shriver
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
~ Seneca the Younger
The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It's hard for a black man to raise a family.
~ Snoop Dogg
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
~ Sophocles
Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
~ Stanislaw Lem
On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.
~ Stefan Zweig
Deep in the winter plain, two armies Dig their machinery, to destroy each other. Men freeze and hunger. No one is given leave On either side, except the dead, and wounded.
~ Stephen Spender
As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.
~ Sydney J. Harris
There is another man within me that's angry with me.
~ Thomas Browne