Battle Quote by Philip Sidney

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

— Ramana Maharshi

“There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resources, ignoring the…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Labor is an antidote for angst and general misery, and the fear that the Devil is going to grab you by the throat at…

— Ann Rice

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and…

— Michel de Montaigne

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be…

— Samuel Johnson

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against…

— Samuel Smiles

“I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any…

— Daphne du Maurier

Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.

— Alan Greenspan

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble,…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

— Livy