Quotes About Struggle

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

No secret man. Just starvation, hunger and diet.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.