Quotes About Adversity

Sutton lost 13 games in a row without winning a ballgame.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mark on a man that will last forever.

You know, a man's life is a lot like a boat. If he keeps his sail set right it doesn't make too much difference which way the wind blows or which way the current flows. If he knows where he wants to go and keeps his sail trimmed carefully he'll come into the right port. But if he forgets to watch his sail till the current catches him broadside he's pretty apt to smash up on the rocks.

He said it would be good for me, as I grew older, to know that a man always made his troubles less by going to meet them instead of waiting for them to catch up with him, or trying to run away from them.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

He had learned long ago that dying was not hard. The harder course was to defy the odds, to endure life's torments stoically.

They exit the womb in survival mode and continue to struggle that way until they die.

she had lived through wars, death, marriages, and every other human travail and

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Uma organização ruim sempre derrotará uma boa pessoa.