Quotes About Adversity

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is the truest valor to dare to live.

When you're my size in the pros, fear is a sign that you're not stupid.

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.

Courage is the ability to solve problems realistically in the presence of fear.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

To lose Is to learn.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us, as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

Despair doubles our strength.

Here is the devil-and-all to pay.

Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.