Quotes About Adversity

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.

The man can only ride you when your back is bent.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.