Quotes About Adversity

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man's, I mean.

Don't you worry your pretty little mind. People throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider's measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains -- chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment -- in a word, Circumstance -- and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Make the best o' things that smoothes people's roads the most..

I`ve had a very difficult life. Fortunately, most of it didn`t happen.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes

today i will find strength in my weakness

Shall I be car-ri-ed toe the skies, on flow'ry beds of ease, Whilst others fight to win the prize, and sail thro' blood-y

Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.

God save you from ever being obliged to beat in a game of chess, whose stake is your life, you having but four poor pawns and pieces and your adversary with his full force unshorn. But if you are, provided you have any strength with breadth of will, do not despair. Though mesmeric power may not save you, it may help you; try it at all events.

Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles … by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. - Mark Twain