Quotes About Adversity

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty, instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!

It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).