Quotes About Struggle

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Sing in me, muse, of arms and a man, who first from the shores of Troy.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.