Quotes About Adversity

Some days the dragon wins.

This, too, shall pass.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Being human, we should bear all we can.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight.

From a shy, timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

Man is his own worst enemy.

A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them, and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

When the rock is hard, we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough, we get tougher than the job.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.