Quotes About Adversity

My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

You didn't get bucked off you fell off. I have a horse that can teach you the difference.

I haven't had a fight since I was eleven. I only won that because she had an asthma attack.

Courage is being scared to death and standing up anyway.

Courage is being completely paralyzed with fear and taking the first step anyway. Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

My name is John Wayne. When I was a kid I had ring worm. Hell, I was more worm than boy for a couple of years.

Life is hard. It is harder if you are stupid!

courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" "A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life

Life it tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

Black-birds fatten best in hard weather

Know this, and let it somewhat raise your spite, Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.

Every victory enlarges the magnitude of our possible defeat.

Through it all he continued to teach and study, though he sometimes felt that he hunched his back futilely against the driving storm and cupped his hands uselessly around the dim flicker of his last poor match.

For a people may endure an almost incredible series of the darkest failures without breaking; but give them respite and some hope for the future, and they may not endure an unexpected denial of that hope.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.