Quotes About Adversity

Great men have big failures.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Man must suffer to be wise.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.