Quotes About Adversity

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap!

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him.

If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.

As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

After about 30 minutes I puked all over my airplane. I said to my self, "Man, you made a big mistake."

If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.

If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.