Quotes About Adversity

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Whatever come we have to meet it.

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.

I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.

Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.

But if you kept thinking about a fight you'd lost, Mom said, you were programming yourself to lose again.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.