Quotes About Adversity

Poverty is much more than a way of life," Jack later wrote. "It goes much farther than skin-deep. It's no tattoo that fades with time. Nor a brand that can be put out of mind except when faced. Poverty, if you've known it, is you.

I can tell you, from a fund of experience, that one can be taken down from the rack, closer to death than to life—and then still have the most exquisite joys ahead of one.

we can suffer economic loss and see it as an opportunity for a spiritual transformation.

I have never been a very brave man," Uncle Moses said. "Nor I," Zalmann added. Eva smiled at them. "You are brave enough.

People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

Since nobody's perfect, we need resistance to test our ideas.

Failure is easy. This is a badge of shame.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.

I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.

She closed her eyes for a moment and then opened them and gazed at me. 'I wonder if you know how you have changed. It is the one good, perhaps, to come out of this terrible year. Oh, the spark was clear in you when you first came to me - but you covered your light as if you were afraid of what would happen if anybody saw it. You were like a flame blown by the wind until it is almost extinguished. All I had to do was put the glass around you. And now, how you shine!

Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss.

Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.