Quotes About Adversity

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.

A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

I have known him (Micawber) come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Flops are a part of life's menu, and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

We must somehow get comfortable with the reality of periodic failure. ... Like a trip to the dentist, the thought of occasional reverses may not make us tingle with joyful anticipation, but then again, it's not the end of the world.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.