Quotes About Adversity

A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.

An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin

Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.

There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

Alright, manly man," he says. "Go prove that you're a man.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.