A Quote by Hesiod
The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.
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If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.
In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.
I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.
In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.
Every day of your life is struggle. You are always struggling to achieve more and more. So one can never say, 'I am not struggling.'
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them.
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.
Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.
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