Quotes About Adversity

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Calamity was ordained for man.

Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.

No man is without his load of trouble.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

I was not always a man of woe.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

That gut-wrenching feeling of defeat I can still feel today. Losing and God are the two things that I fear. I fear no man