Quotes About Struggle

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.

My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

It takes a man to make a devil.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

I have a history with charismatic, attractive men who just wear me out.

The lot of man-to suffer and die.

We men are wretched things.

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.