Quotes About Adversity

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off.

Losing is like my ex-wife... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

Man is not meant to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

Don't change the man. Change his environment.

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.