Quotes About Adversity

I never fight, except against difficulties.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead.

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

When the historian, Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history, he said there were four: 1. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 2. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. 3. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small. 4. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

People will try to pull you down, but you need to fight the negativity in your life. It's always good to stay positive and think positive.

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

You may go through a lot of good times, you may go through a lot of bad times, you just have to try to prepare yourself as best as you can, and for me, that's just sticking with my family.

I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.

I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.