Quotes About Adversity

Why make it easy when you could make it as difficult for yourself as possible? She was a woman, so, technically speaking, she could do anything.

Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, "Must get on with the tea.

she didn't see the point of alcohol, or drugs. People had little enough control over their lives without losing more.

Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult.

Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Even in despair, man must laugh.

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

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]