Quotes About Adversity

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Our family never had any hard luck, because nothing seemed hard luck to it, nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

The way of transgressors is hard.s

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it.

I am disgrac'd, impeach'd and baffled here, - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, But in battalions!

Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

The iron entered into his soul.