Quotes About Adversity

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.

In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Men can bear all things but good days.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.

I said no to the Born Survivor producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.