Quotes About Adversity

The only way anyone ever won a war, is to make the enemy hurt so bad that he can't stand it any more. ... George S. Patton

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

Pressure makes diamonds

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

continue to advance until you run out of ammunition. Then, dig in.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

Just drive down that road until you get blown up.

Against every great and noble endeavor stand a thousand mediocre minds.

catastrophe "that has befallen us black people.

Who could he be? Suddenly with a start he remembered. It was Dr. Joseph Bonds, former head of the Negro Data League in New York. What had brought him here and to this condition? The last time he had seen Bonds, the fellow was a power in the Negro world, with a country place in Westchester County and a swell apartment in town. It saddened Bunny to think that catastrophe had overtaken such a man. Even getting white, it seemed, hadn't helped him much.

Love, bumping his head blindly against all the obstacles of civilization.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

All conditions are bearable, all dignities trumpery, and wisdom simply the gift of making the best of whatever is thrust upon us.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.

He's not a bad guy. He just didn't get any luck and by the time he figured out what was happening to him it was too late to do anything about it.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.