Quotes About Adversity

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.

Many a good man I have seen go under.

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.