Quotes About Adversity

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.

Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.

If a man does not have the sauce, then he is lost. But the same man can be lost in the sauce.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.