Quotes About Adversity

There live a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease Joe silently bore the stings. And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

Brave men don't learn from their home.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe

I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

A man destined to hang can never drown

Some men see mountains as obstacles. Others as a canvas.

You can't let a man like this beat you.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.

Necessity makes dastards valiant men.

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.