Quotes About Adversity

I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels!

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

A man must accept his fate or be destroyed by it

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

I feel like you don't have to go through jail, that's not part of bein' a man.

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.