Quotes About Adversity

Beware of desp'rate steps; the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.

I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.

He was dying all his life.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

I've been failing for like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

If something doesn't come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten, and goes on fighting.

As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind, and isn't through fighting.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

In the clutch of circumstance, I have not winced or cried aloud; Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed.

We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow.

Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.