Quotes About Adversity

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward!

Obstacles! Man needs obstacles to get matured!

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!

The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled!

We can see a man smiling without legs or without hands, but we can't see a man smiling without hope!

Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!

I feel like you've got to go through some things in order to get somewhere. He [GOD] took me through nearly seven years of hell, but allowed me to grow and mature into a man and true professional.

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.