Quotes About Adversity

He rose without a friend, and sat down without an enemy.

If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff, a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.

Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well, as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... 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.

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

This guy put the suck in success.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

Get thee behind me, Satan.

Let's face it, some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one which rolls.

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.