Quotes About Adversity

What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

We must endure what fortune sends.

People can bear anything.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

If I don't get off the mat, I'll lose the fight.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.

The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

All my life I've been competing-and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way, this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn't going to let it kill me, I wasn't even going to let it put me on the shelf.

Tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

"Brave admiral, say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat.

Like ships, men flounder time and time again.

One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school, the little while I went, I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me, but I always got up.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.