Quotes About Adversity

A man surprised is half beaten.

Every path has its puddle.

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

It never rains but it pours.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments.

He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten!

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.

I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well, I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand.

Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.

The way of transgressors is hard.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.

No matter how ill we may be, nor how low we may have fallen, we should not change identity with any other person.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.