Quotes About Adversity

Sam Walton: I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

from Rudyard Kipling's poem "If": If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same

whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." -Bruce Lee

Sometimes you gotta fail in order to succeed

We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one.

Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things around which human affairs turn most persistently.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

I am not now in fortune's power:He that is down can fall no lower.

The course of true anything does not run smooth.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

We can never get rid of mouse-ideas completely, they keep turning up again and again, and nibble, nibble--no matter how often we drive them off. The best way to keep them down is to have a few good strong cat-ideas which will embrace them and ensure their not reappearing till they do so in another shape.

common sense, though she is by nature the gentlest creature living, when she feels the knife at her throat, is apt to develop unexpected powers of resistance, and to send doctrinaires flying, even when they have bound her down and think they have her at their mercy.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Nu mai avea nimic de pierdut: bani, rude, reputaÈ›ie, toate disp?ruser? pentru mult? vreme, dac? nu pentru totdeauna. Dar împreun? cu ele îÈ™i mai luase zborul înc? ceva. M? refer la teama de ceea ce ar fi putut s?-i fac? oamenii.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

In human affairs there is no snug harbor, no rest short of the grave. We are forever setting forth afresh across new and stormy seas, or into outer space.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us

When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed—Slow rises worth, by poverty depress'd.