Quotes About Adversity

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.

Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

I have experienced a lot in my life - some good, some bad ­­- but all of those experiences make up the man I am today.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

He is the most wretched of men who has never felt adversity.

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.