Quotes About Adversity

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

In adversity man is saved by hope.

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I'm not the happiest man on earth I'm surely the luckiest man alive.

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He's broken because he doesn't keep going after those things happen.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook.

God says, Turn the other cheek. So there's no way I could play in a man's game.

Life must go on, Though good men die.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.