Quotes about Struggle
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
— Washington Irving
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
— William Faulkner
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
— George W. Bush
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
— Jack Kerouac
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
— Albert Camus
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
— Aristotle
Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?
— CS Lewis
Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.
— Charles Spurgeon
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
— Dante Alighieri
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
— Edmund Burke
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
— Edmund Burke
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
— Elie Wiesel